VB Forum / COM / December 2003

I've been working on creating an installation package for my program
using the packaging and deployment wizard. It usually does the trick,
but its very ugly -- for just about every file it installs, I get the
message

"A file being copied is older than the file currently on your system"

with the options to keep the existing one, overwrite it, or overwrite
all such files.

I don't ever want my installer to replace newer files with older ones,
so is there some way for me to program this preference into the setup
such that the user doesn't ever get prompted, it just moves on when it
finds a newer file already in place?

Also, at the end of the installation, I get "An error occured while
registering the file c:\winnt\system32\expsrv.dll" -- Abort, Retry,
Ignore
I choose ignore and everything works fine. Can I configure things such
that for any abort retry ignore message ignore is automatically chosen?

More or less I just don't want the user to have to deal with all of
these dialog boxes -- it doesn't seem necessary and it comes off very
sloppy.

Let me know if you have any advice
Thanks
Jon