Microsoft KB Archive/101743

= VB3 How to Change the Setup Application Name in SETUP1.EXE =

Article ID: 101743

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q101743



SUMMARY
The Setup Wizard in Visual Basic version 3.0 creates SETUP1.EXE that when executed displays a blue background with white letters that say: " Setup," where  is the name of your application. This article explains how to change that message to something other than the default.



MORE INFORMATION
To change the display of , follow these steps:

 Run the Setup Wizard as you normally would to create installation disks. Start Visual Basic and load the project SETUP1A.MAK (The Setup Wizard created this project in the C:\VB\SETUPKIT\SETUP1 directory). In the General Declarations section of SETUP1A.FRM, change the value of constant APPNAME:

Const APPNAME = "" From the File menu, choose Make EXE to create the file SETUP1.EXE. Exit to MS-DOS.</li> Copy and compress the file SETUP1.EXE to your distribution disk.

C:\VB\SETUPKIT\KITFILES\COMPRESS -r SETUP1.EXE A:\

This will copy over the old SETUP1.EX_ that was created on the distribution disk by the Setup Wizard.</li></ol>

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