OFF2000: Misleading Text in Custom Installation Wizard on Running Other Programs with Setup

ID: Q228662

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000

SUMMARY

When you are using the Custom Installation Wizard (CIW) and you click Add in the Add Installations and Run Programs dialog box, the following text appears in the Add/Modify Program Entry dialog box:

Enter the name and location of the file you want to execute.

The target cannot be a Windows Installation package (*.MSI, *.MST, OR *.MSP) or a program (MSIEXEC.EXE or maybe SETUP.EXE) that launches such a package.

This is not necessarily true. The Office 2000 Resource Kit (ORK) has an enhanced version of Setup.exe and you can enter a path to this enhanced version of Setup.exe in the Add/Modify Program Entry dialog box. This enhanced version of Setup.exe is used to chain installations of Windows Installer products together into a single installation.

MORE INFORMATION

If you click Help in the Add Installations and Run Programs dialog box, the Help topic displayed contains some information about using the enhanced version of Setup.exe from the ORK.

For more information about the enhanced version of Setup.exe, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q232501 OFF2000: Description of the Enhanced Copy of Setup.exe Available in the Office Resource Kit

For more information about deploying multiple Office 2000 products in a single installation, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q235598 OFF2000: How to Deploy the Contents of Multiple Office CDs at the Same Time

Additional query words: OFF2000

Keywords : kbdta
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo