This has nothing to do with InstallShield, this is Windows Installer trying to fix a configuration problem with your VFP install. This is a Windows Installer behavior called resiliency, which causes applications which are missing components to prompt for their source media.

The short answer is to just give Installer the CD it asks for, in this case the VFP7 CD. This should solve the problem.

If you are using Windows NT, 2000 or XP, some info gets written to the Application Event Log. You may be able to find out what the installer is looking for.

After you get the dialog, look in your Event Log for a couple of Warning events with source MsiInstaller.

I renamed mscomctl.ocx, then ran VFP and the Class Browser (on Win2K) as a test.

I got 2 events, the first was eventID 1004 and contains this:

Detection of product '{235D8A94-2F97-11D6-A551-0090278A1BB8}', feature
'VFP8_Professional', component '{22056900-C842-11D1-A0DD-00A0C9054277}'
failed. The resource 'C:\WINNT\System32\mscomctl.ocx' does not exist.

The 2nd event was ID 1001, and contains this:

Detection of product '{235D8A94-2F97-11D6-A551-0090278A1BB8}', feature
'VFP8_Professional' failed during request for component
'{22056900-C842-11D1-A0DD-00A0C9054277}'

So at least in this case, it listed the exact missing file as a
resource. You may see the same thing, in which case you could just replace the missing file rather than going through the install again.


>I think it stinks as well. We have a reoccuring issue every once and a while and I am doing it now on my machine. We have a form that comes up on our on our base class/object that the user can click into to produce a tree view of a hierarchy on item they can choose from. Now when I click on the form InstallShield starts up and tries to install VFO 7.0 English version. I have to click cancel 3-4 times to get it to stop. One of my co-workers had this a few months ago and it went away on its own, now I got it.
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