Hi Jack,

The very first thing i think is to upgrade your service Pack of W2k.

Possible Cause could be Virus or Different Windows Installer Version or Service Pack Missing:

Once you do the needful what mentioned above.

Try renaming MSIEXEC.EXE as MSIEXEC.OLD and retry the installation.

I have faced the same set of problem and resolved through the above mentioned steps.

Aashish


>Trying to install VFP 8 on Windows 2000 SP2, getting an error during the installatino of the Setup Runtime Files (one of the Prerequisites). Here is a piece of the installation log:
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>Setup Runtime Files: CreateProcess launched with cmd line c:\vfp8ins\wcu\RunProg.exe "c:\vfp8ins\wcu\RunProg.exe" [winsys]msiexec.exe|/qn /i "[apppath]bootstrap.msi" TRANSFORMS="[apppath]VFP_Trnsfrm_BS.mst" REBOOT=ReallySuppress REINSTALLMODE=vemus
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>Setup Runtime Files: c:\vfp8ins\wcu\RunProg.exe exited with return value 1603
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>Setup Runtime Files: Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation."
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>Setup Runtime Files: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : Setup Failed on component Setup Runtime Files
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>Based on info in the Readme, I then proceeded to attempt to install VFP8 anyway, and it hangs almost immediately as it displays the "Loading installation components" dialog box.
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>Any ideas? I have previously successfully installed VFP8 on another computer, so I don't think I've skipped any necessary steps, and the machine in question already has VFP7 on it.