The system cannot find the file specified

[zou]

Run into this error when install my application on another pc (win xp).

Runs ok on my develop pc (win7, LabVIEW2013 SP1).

There is no error code, nor missing filename.

Anyone had this error before ?

The installer doesn't include any additional NI package, nor runtime engine.

[Air_Frantz]

George,

In order to deploy an application to another pc, you need to make sure of two things.  Firstly, you need the LabVIEW 2013 SP1 runtime engine (engine must match developer computer version of LabVIEW) installed on the target computer.  Secondly, you need to make sure to include any files that your application may need in the 'Source Files' during your build.  It shouldn't make a difference what Windows OS you use.

[zou · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much for reply.

Even if you don't have runtime engine, or missing some files, the installer should NOT fail.

Nothing gets installed!

I know missing file, and/or runtime engine will make my application not be able to run.

Just testing the installer.

The problem is actually from the Windows settings.

NI failed to pass the error information to user.

[RavensFan]

So what Windows setting was it that caused you a problem?

[zou]

It's a Windows issue.  You can search the internet for:

The system cannot find the file specified xp

[RavensFan]

I could search the internet, but how do I know which of the thousand links that Google presents has the answer?  Wut wouldn't it be better if you posted a link to the website that helped you figure it out?  Even give a quick one or two sentence description as to what the solution was?

You marked your earlier message as the solution, you may have solved your problem, but your message isn't a solution at all because it isn't going to help anyone.  Make it easier for someone with the same problem in the future who is searching the forums and stumbles across your message thread to help figure out what is wrong.

[zou]

It's complicated.  I haven't find what exactly went wrong yet.  Don't want to go throuth all the diagonstic steps.

Too many search results.  Event Win7 has such problem.

Better to leave you to see yourself.

The solution was get another xp.

[RavensFan]

Okay.  It's complicated, and you don't have a full explanation.  At least give a clue as to what you think was going on.

I don't care about this myself.  I haven't had this problem, and I'll never be working on another XP computer again.  I just want to try to make this forum as helpful as possible to other people who come here in the future.  You're a long time reader and poster in the forums, so I'm sure you know what kind of messages are helpful when you read them and what kind were not helpful.

There are way too many messages on the internet (I'm not talking about these forums in particular) where you search for help with a problem, you find a bunch of messages where people sound like they had the same problem you have, and the messages never offer a solution or a clue as to what the answer is.  And then I'll find the first two pages of Google are actually all different links to the same question by the same person, they were just useless mirror copies by different websites.

Those messages are just a huge waste of my time when I'm searching for a solution to my problem.  Their only value might be that at least I know I wasn't the only person in the world that had that problem.

[zou]

I've no clue what went wrong on my old xp.  I'm on a small fixed-price project which leave me no time to dig into it.

If you search on bing wich "The System cannot find the file specified xp installer", you will find more useful result.

Those result also tells me that this error could come from different sources.

[REDS]

I got the same error. The problem was that the path the installer ran from was very long. Tried running the installer from a shorter path and it worked fine.