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Creating Launch Icons
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04/05/2002 21:59:36
Mike Smith
Doncaster Office Services
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00652682
Message ID:
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>George
>
>You are right about the post install executable. The above code is in a file CREATI.EXE which follows the SETUP.EXE.
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>In the above example, the operator is fed with the default installation directory (in this case it is C:\TTVIZ) and asked to change it (possibly they installed to D:\TTVIZ). Whatever they entered becomes HDRIV in the above. There are no temp directories or special directories for config.fpw.
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>Anyway, the above code works fine in Windows 95/98 but generates a series of error messages and eventually fails under Windows NT 4.0. I haven't tried it under Windows NT 2000. Actually my clients are moving to Windows NT 2000, so it is really Windows NT 2000 I am worried about.
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>Has your NT experience been with NT 2000 or NT 4.0?
>

Mike,

With NT 4.0, SP5, as a minimum, has to be installed. With Win2K, the WSH is installed automatically.

What I do is check for the presence of the VBScript.RegExp key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. If not present, it means that WSH 2.0 isn't installed. In this case, I install it automatically.
George

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