Driver distribution kit setup.exe has suddenly started failing on my PC.

[Darren Draper]

I have created a PXI VISA driver in LabWindows/CVI 7.0, and have used the Create Distribution Kit to generate the
distribution kit for my driver. To test the driver, I then run the setup.exe in the distribution kit and for some
reason it has all of a sudden today stopped working, in so much that the installer popup flashes up very quickly and then
disappears, thus not completing the installation. I have been running my distribution kits for a couple of years with
no problem, and indeed the setup.exe works fine on all the other identical PCs in our lab. So it appears to be something
that has happened on my Win 2000 PC today. I have reinstalled service pack 4.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Darren

[jlaney]

Darren,

To debug this I need to you run the distribution kit with logging turned on and then post the lo0g file. To run with loggin turned on, open a command prompt and navigate to where the setup.exe is located. Run the setup.exe with the following command line:

setup.exe /l*v "c:\mylogfile.txt"

Then send me the mylogfile.txt so I can see what is going on.

Regards,
Jeff
NI

[Darren Draper]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply.

The problem has gone away for now, as I had our IT department look into it. The end result was a complete rebuild of my PC. Obviously it's now all working ok.

I've no idea what caused it, but if it happens again I'll generate the logfile as you've described.

Best Regards,
Darren