Runtime Error - prereq.dfm The system cannot find the file..

[Presslr1]

I am using InstallAware 17 on Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2005. I receive no errors when building the project. When I go to install the application, I receive Runtime Error in the InstallAware Wizard "C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Temp\mia3\prereq.dfm". The system cannot find the file specified.

I downloaded procmon.exe and the only thing that I could find was pointing to the setup.exe file for the app I am trying to install. I have tried to two different computers. All Anti-Virus is disabled.

Can anyone help me out with this? Many thanks!

[FrancescoT]

Are you able to replicate the same with a very simple project?

Regards

[Presslr1]

Are you able to replicate the same with a very simple project?

Hello, FrancescoT, no, on a very simple project, I do not have this issue.

I noticed in my original project Project/InstallAware directory, there are only 9 files; whereas, in my simple project/InstallAware directory, there are many files...didn't count them.

Another clue that may help, is for my original project, the last time I upgraded the application in 2011, I was using Windows 7 and an earlier version of InstallAware. The original InstallAware build directory is still in the same location, but since I upgraded InstallAware, I renamed the InstallAware folder to force a new set of files. I am not sure why I did that other than because I upgraded InstallAware. However, I have also tried to create a successful install using the previous build directory files, but that didn't seem to work either.

[FrancescoT]

Dear

I suspect that simply ... you missed to copy ( for some reasons) the required "prereq" dilaog resources within your project folder.

Please check if both "prereq.dfm" and "prereq.dfm.miaf" files are available under your project folder.
... probably due the fact that you don't have so many files under the project folder, those are not the only you missed.

So, carefully check the files under your original project folder.

Regards