From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"mike"  wrote in message
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>>or a problem with Visual C++ 8.0 runtime files and Vista?
>>
>>http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/01/09/problems-with-custom-action
s-that-depend-on-the-visual-c-8-0-runtime-files-on-windows-vista.aspx
>>
>>I recently heard about a couple of scenarios that were causing problems
>>for folks creating MSI-based setup packages.  In one case, the developer
>>was installing a service and attempting to start it using the
>>ServiceControl table, but it failed when running setup on Windows Vista.
>>  In another case, the developer was attempting to self-register a DLL
>>and it failed when running setup on Windows Vista (such as in the
>>scenario described here).
>>
>>In both of these scenarios, the error message "Activation context
>>generation failed for " was logged in the
event log.  The
>>error code seen in these scenarios was -2147010895, which is 0x800736B1
>>in hexadecimal and translates to ERROR_SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX.
>>
>>In both cases, the binaries in question had a dependency on the Visual
>>C++ 8.0 runtime files, and the MSI included the MSMs to install the VC
>>8.0 runtime files as part of the same setup.
>
>
> Great, but how does that help that poor guy with Quicken get access to
> his financial data files.

Maybe they're taking the open source way: get the source and fix it yerself?


Antti Kurenniemi
(I think you can download all the sources you ever wanted from about two
billion Chinese and Russian netsites...)

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