I’ve been developing a system in Visual Basic (VB-5. I know it’s
outdated, but I’m so far along in it that I’ve been afraid to rock the
boat by rebuilding the project in VB-6, which I have). Anyway,

I have until now never had any problem building a distribution file
for transferring to CD for sales distribution, but now I find that
when I build the file and then try to install from it using the
SETUP.EXE file that VB supplies, he aborts the installation. I printed
out the Installation LOG file and this is the message that he gives me
as the cause of the Abort:

The file ‘C:\WINDOWS\system32\$(DLLSelfRegisterEx)’ could not be
registered because it was not found.

I don’t know whether the Installation process is looking for this file
because he always looks for it or because something in my distribution
folder is telling him to look for it. Do you know? If it’s something
in my distribution, any clues as to how I would go about locating what
it is that triggers the search for the file. If I absolutely must have
the file in any case, any idea where I might get it (say, the Windows
Installation CD, the Internet, whatever)?

I have moved from Windows 98 to a Windows XP recently and I don’t
recall whether I’ve ever tried to make a distribution CD under XP. I
suspect this is the first attempt.

Any help would be appreciated