Microsoft KB Archive/141022

= How to Change the Setup Application Name =

Article ID: 141022

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q141022



SUMMARY
The Setup Wizard in Visual Basic version 4.0 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. Insert the first installation disk into drive A. Run Notepad. Open the file "SETUP.LST" from the disk.  Change the item "Title" in the "[Setup]" group as shown below: [Setup] Title=YourNewTitle </li> Save the file.</li> Close Notepad.</li></ol>

If you have saved your Setup Wizard installation you can make the modification permanent the next time you build a set of installation disks. Follow these steps:

<ol> Run Notepad.</li> Open the .VBZ file that pertains to your application.</li>  Change the item "AppTitle" in the "[Flags]" group as shown below: [Flags] AppTitle=YourNewTitle </li> Save the file.</li> Close Notepad.</li></ol>

This will automatcally be added to you "SETUP.LST" file the next time you build installation disks from the Setup Wizard.

Additional query words: 4.00 setup wizard setupwizard vb4win vb4all

Keywords: KB141022

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