I’m using the Package and Deployment Wizard (VB6.0) to deploy my application. My users occasionally get the ‘Setup cannot continue…..some system files are out of date’ message. Microsoft support records this in Article ID 174135 which says that the user must select OK and the files will be updated.

Occasionally the Update does not work and the message keeps re-occurring. This is reported in Article ID 191096.

The solution that they recommend requires someone with moderate computer knowledge to make changes to the user system. My users are pilots and as a result they are not very computer literate. And they are spread around southern Africa: Not easy to visit.

Is there no way to pre-empt the problem and react from within the setup program?

Has this not been fixed? In the article, under STATUS, Microsoft simply acknowledges the problem!!!!!