If you download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit , as suggested you will find Compatibility Administrator. Go in to the Compatibility Administrator and create a new database. Next you will want to right click on the database and click new application fix. Browse to the app and select XP as the OS. This will pick the fixes for you that need to be done. Finally you will need to deploy this database which can be done by one line batch file or through a custom actions. This will run the application in Windows 7 like it would work under Windows XP. Let me know if you have further questions. ... View more

From what I understand you can not use an exe. The result must be a single .msi file. If that is the case, you can not use the installshield prerequistes. Prerequisites are called by the setup launcher, the .exe file. You can however install any needed application through custom actions. Whether or not you want to do this depends on what these applications are. If these are msis as well, it can be done, but is not in best practice. ... View more

I ran in to a simular situation. All I needed was a reboot to get rid of them. REBOOT=FORCE ... View more

Thanks, I will give that a try. Thanks for your advise on this. ... View more

I first tried this the MSI I am shipping. When this had problems, I tried this for a blank setup, one component, one feature, no files. The same problem happens for the blank setup and the commerical MSI I am shipping on his system. We never get to the MSI, the setup tries to launch it. The log we are looking at is for a blank setup, one component, one feature. It took 20 seconds to create. ... View more

Looks like we get to launch the MSI, but instead of transitioning to the MSI, it just dies. Something like this -9-2009[06:26:32]: Attempting to launch: MSIEXEC.EXE /i "C:\DOCUME~1\mobryan\LOCALS~1\Temp\{F37AFA29-DDC5-4566-A6CB-FBE422A143C2}\test.msi" SETUPEXEDIR="C:\Documents and Settings\mobryan\Desktop\deleteme\blank\fresh" SETUPEXENAME="setup.exe" 11-9-2009[06:27:10]: Launch result 1, exit code 0 11-9-2009[06:27:12]: Dumping setup.ini... .............Contents of Setup.ini............................... 11-9-2009[06:27:13]: Setup returning 0 Next we should see the MSI, but instead, nothing. Not sure why. For the web install it get to the point where is says downloading MSI, but it never runs. The MSI is not launched. The MSI runs when typing in the URL, but the product won't run without all the prerequisites. ... View more

Thanks I tried this too. This works great for labels, but doesn't work for buttons. Problem is can't have a label that is clickable. ... View more

Oh I did find you can do this if you have MSI 5 or better which is only available for windows 7. So that won't help. Create a static text control Set its text in HTML format: like this: www.google.com where the href parameter specifies the URL and the text between the opening and the closing tag is what gets displayed. Go to Direct Editor and select the table named Control. Find your text control and change the Type from Text to Hyperlink. I know about this, but was looking for at least blue text in less normal windows installer support. 3.1 and above ... View more

Hate to reply to my own thread, but looks like it may have been a problem on the web server ... View more

Go to the dialog tab and find the setupitilization and modify that dialog. ... View more

The way the setup launcher works is it will look for the download location if it can't find it. Uncheck the checkbox for download for the web your prequesties and include the web release of .net Run it on a system with no framework and notice that it will correctly download it when the complete .net framework is not included. 🙂 ... View more