How to Change the Setup Application Name

• Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SUMMARY

The Setup Wizard in Visual Basic version 4.0 creates SETUP1.EXE that when executed displays a blue background with white letters that say, "<EXE NAME> Setup," where <EXE NAME> is the name of your application. This article explains how to change that message to something other than the default.

MORE INFORMATION

To change the display of <EXE NAME>, follow these steps:

1. Run the Setup Wizard as you normally would to create installation disks.

2. Insert the first installation disk into drive A.

3. Run Notepad.

4. Open the file "SETUP.LST" from the disk.

5. Change the item "Title" in the "[Setup]" group as shown below:

         [Setup]
         Title=YourNewTitle
   

6. Save the file.

7. Close Notepad.

1. Run Notepad.

2. Open the .VBZ file that pertains to your application.

3. Change the item "AppTitle" in the "[Flags]" group as shown below:

         [Flags]
         AppTitle=YourNewTitle
   

4. Save the file.

5. Close Notepad.