Hi kaneohe, That "Show Details" tab is an easy one to miss, thanks for that 🙂 I changed the selection and made sure it was using the "C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2009\Modules\i386" merge modules, this selected both the normal and policy modules as expected and when testing this worked beautifully. 😉 Thanks very much for your help. I would still be curious as to why the others done work or why installshield selected the others by default but i am more than content with it just working now. Thanks again to you both, 🙂 Regards, Dan ... View more

Hi Sharon, Thanks very much for the help. I checked the feature was seleted for the appropriate merge modules. I also tried modifying the installation directory of the merge modules (It was set to default), after performing an install there were no merge module files when they were specified to be installed. I really cant understand but if there are any other options, or even long shots it would be most appreciated. Edit: I've got this working though im not clear in my own mind about the correct solution. In my merge module list there are multiple entries for Visual C++ 9.0 ATL (x86) WinSXS and Visual C++ 9.0 CRT (x86) WinSXS. Originally i thought this was strange but didnt think too much about it. I did a test where i checked all the entries with this name and the install worked as expected. With all the merge modules selected i noticed that they were actually referencing different merge module files e.g. "Merging Visual C++ 9.0 ATL (x86) WinSXS MSM: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules\Microsoft_VC90_ATL_x86.msm" "Merging Visual C++ 9.0 ATL (x86) WinSXS MSM: C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2009\Modules\i386\Microsoft_VC90_ATL_x86.msm" My main concern now is how do i tell which is the correct module to use and what is the policy merge module that goes along with some of them? Regards, Dan ... View more

Thanks again packagechief, Unforuneitly the setup i need the command line switches to work for is a third party one that i dont have any project file for. Its all working fine apart from the UI popping up, this while not nice is acceptable and my setup is actually useable now. Thank you very much! 🙂 ... View more

Thank you very much for the clear reply packagechief! I have now managed to get the setup working as a prerequisite which is great! 🙂 There are now two remaining issues. Firstly my installer does not wait for the prerequisite to finish before starting itself. As soon as the prerequisite has finished extracting my main installer starts extracting and running. I tried using the /w as a command line paramater for the prerequisite but this made no difference? Solved! 🙂 Because the prerequisite was created with an old version of installshield it needed the /SMS command line. Secondly the interface for the prerequisite still pops up (it doesnt ask the user for any input as i have a responce file). But i was wondering if there is anyway to not display the interface? I have tried the /v/qn command line paramater and this makes no difference. The prerequisite setup seems to be from an old version of installshield. Im not sure which type of project or version of installshield it was created with so im assuming this is why not all the command line paramaters are working. Thanks very much! ... View more