Package and Deployment loop when running setup

[Caro]

I am using Package and Deployment wizard to install my VB6 app on the user site. On most machines this is OK and it takes a while to run thro the first 8 or so dll's and then the installation is OK. On some machines, it rushes thro the first bit and says it has detected out of date files - if you say yes to update them you are told to run seup again when you've finished and you get exactly the same message, so you are in a loop and the app never installs!!
Any ideas what this might be? I am including some Crystal reports but nothing unusual in my app.

[joedoer]

Does it tell you to re-boot after the new file install?
It seems I always have to do that.

[Caro]

Yes but even when I do that it doesn't make any difference

[leontro]

It may be caused by the regional settings (date part). If the user machines date format is different than you (e.g. yours is mm/dd/yyyy, his is dd/mm/yyyy) the problem may arise. Try to look at the date formats...

Good Luck

[malain]

Did you finally resolve your problem ?

I had the same loop problem with the PDWizard. Now I'm using Visual Studio Installer. It did resolve my problem but on some old machine, I had to execute the Crystal Report 4.6 installation program (Crystl32.exe) which come with VB6.
Everything is going fine with Visual Studio Installer except for the registry of crystl32.ocx. On some old machine, I got this message:

Error 1904. Module C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
/crystl32.ocx failed to register. HRESULT -2147023739. Contact your support personnel.

Anyway, I don't have that PDWizard loop problem anymore !

[smh]

If you haven't fixed your problem yet, I recommend that you run 'Mdac_typ.exe' on the older computers. It should be in the support file with the program executable that you created. I found that this usually fixed any 'out of date' file issues that I have encountered.

smh

[malain]

I had allready run Dcom95.exe and mdac_typ.exe on my old machines. It worked on some of them but not for all. For those hard ones, I use Visual Studio Installer.

Thanks.

[yann]

For Caro :
I had the same loop problem yesterday on a NTSE 4.0 machine.
Have you fixed it yet? if so, can you tell me how please.
I already fixed it one time by installing ie5 instead of ie4 on a machine which had the loop problem.

For the others :
where can I find visual studio installer?

[malain]

For Yann

You can download Visual Studio Installer 1.1 at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/vsi11/default.asp

[yann]

My loop problem has been solved by using VSI instead of PD Wizard. Moreover, the installation is a lot quicker.
Thanks MALLAIN