Eric,

When I first looked into the installer; it is mostly intended for Win2k and the new "Windows Installer" package built in. I think your finding what I found that deploying it if you use Win9x/NT doesn't pay off.

>>Hi everybody.
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>>I have done a setup package using Visual Studio Installer.
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>>Now, I want to test its deployment. For this, I have a recently formatted PC with using Win95.
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>>Why the .MSI file isn't recognize?
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>I found that we have to install a part of VSI (about 1.3 meg) if using Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 computers (that didn't installed Office 2000).
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>You will find on the first CD of Office 2000 (and maybe elsewhere) a folder called MSI. In this folder, you have 2 files:
>-INSTMSI.EXE = for Windows 95/98
>-INSTMSIW.EXE = for Windows NT 4.0
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>Run the right installation file for you and your .MSI file will then be recognized!