ADT2: ADT Application's Setup Cannot Find MSSetup.dll

ID: Q154452

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SYMPTOMS

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

After you run the Microsoft Access Setup Wizard and copy the contents of your disk image folders to diskettes using a computer running Windows 95, you may receive the following error message when you run Setup.exe from Disk 1:

Setup cannot access required initialization file: 'A:\MSSETUP.DLL'.


CAUSE

By default, Windows 95 hides .dll files in Explorer; therefore, MSSetup.dll did not get copied to the diskette.


RESOLUTION

In Windows 95 Explorer, click Options on the View menu, and click the "Show all files" option on the View tab. Then, copy the Disk 1 folder's contents to the diskette again.


MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Run the Microsoft Access Setup Wizard in Windows 95 to create 1.2 megabyte (MB) or 1.44 MB disk images for a run-time application.


  2. In the Windows 95 Explorer, click Options on the View menu, and click the "Hide files of these types:" option on the View tab. (This is the default selection when you install Windows 95.)


  3. Copy the files in your Disk 1 image folder to a diskette.


  4. Run Setup.exe from the diskette.


For information about additional issues with creating disk images for Microsoft Access 2.0 run-time applications while running in Windows 95, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q130399 ADT2: ADT Apps Created in Windows 95 Cause Error in Windows 3.1


REFERENCES

Microsoft Access "Advanced Topics," version 2.0, pages 19-37

Additional query words: 


Keywords          : kbenv kberrmsg 
Version           : WINDOWS:2.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: July 26, 1999