0x00000000 error when installing a package

[SLamb88]

I just wrote a rather simple VB 6.0 program, and created a package using Visual Studio's Package and Deployment Wizard. Everything appears to have gone fine. However, when I run setup.exe, I get the message that:
The instructions at "0x00000000" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "Read".
Clicking on cancel launches the debugger, which opens with the message:
Unhandled exception in Setup1.exe:0xC0000005: Access Violation
Does anybody have any insight into what could be causing this?
Thanks,
Steve

 

[CajunCenturion]

I don't know, but if you can trust the message from the debugger - "Access Violation", then I would insure that you have write permissions to all of the directories in which you're trying to install some files. That may include the Windows\System (or equivalent) and/or other directories, especially if you're trying to install on a network drive. It may be that you have to logged in as an "admin" user to install the program. Good Luck
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[SLamb88]

Thanks for the info. I checked all the security rights and everything looks good, but jsut to be sure I logged onto the machine locally as "Administrator" and it still blew up. However, I now think it's something with my machine, because it ran fine on another. This may be something that just has to be chalked up to the Perils of Microsoft.