Why will a stand alone executalbe with an installer work on windows 2000 and crashes on windows xp professional?

[BB_Herman]

When I run the setup.exe file on a Windows 2000 system it installs properly, but the same file run on a XP Professional system I get an error stating Fatal Error: Installation ended prematurely because of an error.

See here for more information on the specific installer I'm trying to use.

In fact I get this error for any stand alone executable I try to install on any XP machines. I am using LV 7.1. Is there a way to manually install eve
rything?

Thanks

[LunaBlue]

Sure you can Install a lv application manually. just copy the exe-file,
support files in a folder. For the runtimeengine just copy the file
lvrte.dll in the folder of your application or in the windows system folder.
Hope that helps, Niko

BB Herman wrote:

> Why will a stand alone executalbe with an installer work on windows
> 2000 and crashes on windows xp professional?
>
> When I run the setup.exe file on a Windows 2000 system it installs
> properly, but the same file run on a XP Professional system I get an
> error stating Fatal Error: Installation ended prematurely because of
> an error.
>
> See
> HREF="http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=50650000000800000...

for more information on the specific installer I'm trying to
> use.
>
> In fact I get this error for any stand alone executable I try to
> install on any XP machines. I am using LV 7.1. Is there a way to
> manually install everything?
>
> Thanks

[BB_Herman]

The problem is the installer also modifies the registry. Also, why does it not work on XP?

[JellyBeans]

A log file would be helpful. You can create log by running msi file (not setup.exe) directly from command line using

myapp.msi /l*v c:\myapp.log

That would give more insight to what is happening in the msi.

A Rafiq

[BB_Herman]

A Rafiq,

Here is the log. I can't make any heads or tails of it.

[JellyBeans]

All i was able to extract from msi log is that some file is in use by the system. Can you run this on any XP machine?
What files are going into this installer?

A Rafiq

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

I do not have exprience with this issue, but did a search on the log file for occurance of "err". This line in the file stood out:

Property(C): WiseInitSpaceError = Could not create temporary file, not enough free temporary disk space. Please free up disk space and rerun this installation.

Do not know if it helps, but thought I would reply.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Also found these in the log

Property(C): WiseInitExistError = %s Version %s is already installed. You must uninstall the existing version before installing %s Version %s. Do you want to uninstall the existing version of %s?

AND

Property(C): WiseInitAdminError = You must have administrator rights to run this installation. Please login as an administrator and re-run this installation.

[BB_Herman]

This cannot be run on any XP machine. To get a list of the files you would have to follow the thread I attached in the original post.

[BB_Herman]

I'm not reinstalling a version that I'm aware of and I am the administrator.