Microsoft KB Archive/136155

= PRJ41: Setup Removes Earlier Project Files Without Warning =

Article ID: 136155

Article Last Modified on 8/30/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Project 4.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q136155



SYMPTOMS
When you run Microsoft Project Setup, the Setup program may remove all earlier versions of Microsoft Project without asking if you would like to remove the program and without warning you that this will occur.



CAUSE
This problem occurs if you run the Microsoft Project 4.1 Setup program, and if the Setup program is interrupted (for example, if you click Cancel or if a conflict occurs so that Setup is not completed) after Setup installs the Winproj.exe file. When you run Microsoft Project 4.1 Setup again, the Setup program does not ask you if you want to remove the earlier version of Microsoft Project. Instead, the Setup program removes all earlier versions from your computer.

NOTE: When Microsoft Project version 4.1 removes an earlier version of Microsoft Project, your user files and your Global.mpt file from the earlier version are not removed.



WORKAROUND
To avoid this problem when the Microsoft Project 4.1 Setup has been interrupted, delete the Winproj.exe file from the incomplete installation of Microsoft Project version 4.1 before you run Setup again.

To restore an earlier version of Microsoft Project that has been removed, you must run the Setup program for that version and re-install the program.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the versions of Microsoft Project listed above.



MORE INFORMATION
When you install Microsoft Project version 4.1, you receive the following message if you have an earlier version of Microsoft Project installed in another folder on your computer:

Setup has detected an older version of Microsoft Project on your hard disk. Would you like to have this version removed? Only the application's files will be removed. Documents you created using the application will not be removed.

However, if the Setup program is interrupted, after copying the Winproj.exe file to your computer, the next time you run Setup, you may not receive the dialog box asking if you want to remove the earlier version, and the earlier version files are automatically removed.

Additional query words: previous old

Keywords: kbbug kbsetup kbpending KB136155

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