![]() SetupText=Copying Files, please stand by. The command that worked for me was setup.exe -s%TEMP%\Crystal.logįor completeness, here is the contents of my SETUP.LST file I’m guessing it was the hyphen that did it but there may be a file length restriction When I used -sC:\temp\CrystalViewer-Setup.log the log file was truncated to CrystalViewer without a file extension.Check these things if you are getting an “ Invalid command-line arguments. It should be setup.exe -s but it wasn’t working for me at first. SETUP.LST should already be one of the files in your installation folder alongside SETUP.exe.Īfter I removed the offending lines I could then use the silent install command to deploy the app.Ī note about the silent install command itself. In here, it explains how you can edit a SETUP.LST file to ignore the problematic files and carry on as normal. Luckily I found this superb article Silent Installs and Visual Basic 6 Setup Packages. This is then a headache if you wanted to deploy via a script, group policy, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, System Center etc. The problem with this, is that it makes it impossible to install the app silently. In Crystal Viewer, that comes up for MSVCRT.DLL. You also get the usual “The file you are trying to install is older than the one on your system. I’ve no idea what the PDAddIn.dll does but everything we do with the app seems to work fine without it. It actually installs and runs fine on Windows 7 Pro (圆4) but it does give a pesky errorĪn error occurred while registering the file ‘C:\Windows\system32\PDADDIN.DLL’ This is completely unsupported by the publisher (SAP) and means it is very difficult to track down files or documentation. ![]() One such app we need to use is Crystal Reports Viewer 2.0. ![]() Of course, the ideal solution may be to virtualise the app but if you don’t have the infrastructure in place already then that may be cost-prohibitive or time consuming as well. In my opinion, it is better to get the OS secure and let an old legacy app run, than to keep a dusty Windows XP PC just for the use of one program. It’s usually some bespoke system that will take a lot of time and money to re-write or upgrade. As part of our #XPMustDie campaign we sometimes come across old software that simply cannot be updated in time.
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