Article ID: 152317
Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual C++ 4.1 Subscription
This article was previously published under Q152317
SYMPTOMS
When installing ODBC drivers from the Visual C++ 4.1 CD-ROM by running setup from \MSDEV\REDIST, you may see the following error message:
When this happens, you have to quit the setup program.
CAUSE
Setup is looking for the QFEUPD.EXE file that it could not find on Visual C++ 4.1 CD-ROM.
RESOLUTION
Prior to running setup, copy QFEUPD.EXE from your Visual C++ 4.0 CD-ROM into your System32 (System in Windows 95) directory.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in Visual C++ 32- bit Edition version 4.2.
MORE INFORMATION
This behavior occurs when you choose custom installation and remove Oracle from the list of drivers to be installed. If you choose to install Oracle, you will hit another setup error:
and you have to quit the setup at that point. For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
148916 BUG: Setup Could Not Open \Msdev\Redist\Oracle.hlp File
When you already have the Oracle.hlp file on your machine and you do not have QFEUPD.EXE, you will hit the error described in this article.
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