Install problem

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I've got a problem installing an app on a Windows 95 workstation.

It was developed on a Windows NT workstation but it has been installed successfully on other Windows 95 workstations and NT is no problem. DCOM is installed first for the Win95 pc and then setup package is launched.

During set up mdac_typ.exe is installed for ADO 2.1 and the ActiveX controls used in the app. The user gets an error message during the setup:

Received Error Message: Error C:\Windows\ST6UNST.6EXE. - Access Violation - Abort or Retry. I selected Retry and continued

Received the following error: C:\Windows\System\MSCOMCTL.OCX Access Violation - Abort or Retry. I selected Retry and the application loaded succesfully.

Mdac installs properly without a problem.

The user launches the app and when it tries to connect to the data source she gets an error message:
RunTime error 3706
ADO could not find the specified provider.

What going wrong? The same install worked fine on a different Windows 95 machine and she didn't have anything else open during install.

Help.

3706 is an old friend of mine, I guarantee it is MDAC giving you the hassles. I'm not sure about the other errors registering. But make sure you are logged in as admin under NT when installing MDAC, this was my major cause of problems when I first started using ADO.

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It works fine on NT. The install goes great and the app can connect to the datasource without a problem.

Only on this Win 95 pc is giving me problems. The funny thing is that it installed properly on a different Win 95 machine.

She has un-installed it once and then re-installed everything and it still gives her this error. Any other suggestions?

You can have problems when your using dcom95 for mdac. try to reinstall dcom95 or dcom98. and reinstall mdac.
If this doesnt work. try to install ado stand alone.
you can download it somewhere... but make sure when you
installed dcom. to reboot your system first.