Faulty DLL's???? 1

[SteveGlover]

Using the PD Wizard I've installed a VB6 application on 30 or so PC's without problems, but I'm having trouble installing onto one PC running XP. The install goes OK but running the application starts up a Microsoft Office Pro install program instead.

I can duplicate this fault on a different PC (running Windows 2000) by removing the MSVBVM60.DLL, so I thought that maybe the VM DLL was corrupt. I deleted MSVBVM60.DLL from the "problem" PC and did the install again, but the problem remains.

Has anybody got any ideas what's happening here? I suspect that one of the other DLL or OCX files used by the application is corrupt but don't know how to find out which one.

Note:
On most PC's if you delete MSVBVM60.DLL and try to run a VB app Windows tells you specifically "Cannot find MSVBVM60.DLL", so why is it running the Office Install?

It's not a short-cut problem - the problem occurs by double clicking the .EXE file.

I've previously installed onto lots of XP machines without problems.

MSVBVM60.DLL is being copied across, and it looks OK.

 

[mmilan]

I have a very similar problem whenever I try and launch the VB IDE at home...

mmilan

 

[MattSTech]

Does the office install hang or does it complete the installation? I had this issue when installing an application with an ado reference. I let the installer finish, rebooted, then never had the problem again.

Matt

 

[koala15]

I know it is not polite to answer a question with a question, but .....

Have you looked at the file (suffix) associations on the "offending" system for something out of the ordinary?

"Life is full of learning, and then there is wisdom"

 

[SteveGlover]

Thanks MattsTech

Office installer asks for the Office Pro CDROM which I don't have, so it doesn't complete. When I cancel it, it immediately runs again, and the only way of stopping it is to End my Application from the task from Task Manager.

The Task Manager shows that my Application is running, but it obviously never gets far enough to display anything.