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Q201357: ODE97: Can’t Write to Wininet.dll or Urlmon.dll During Install

Article: Q201357
Product(s): Microsoft Access Distribution Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kberrmsg kbdta
Last Modified: 06-AUG-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition 
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Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

SYMPTOMS
========

When you are installing a run-time application on a computer, you may receive
the following error message:

  Setup could not write to the file: '<C:\Windows\System>\Wininet.dll'.
  This file is currently being used by another application. Close any open
  applications.

or

  Setup could not write to the file: '<C:\Windows\System>\Urlmon.dll'.
  This file is currently being used by another application. Close any open
  applications.

You then have the following options: Retry, Abort, and Ignore. The path to the
files will be specific to your computer's Microsoft Windows System path.

CAUSE
=====

The run-time application that you are installing contains a newer version of one
or both of the files, Urlmon.dll or Wininet.dll. The Setup program always tries
to overwrite older copies of files on a system that it is installing the files
onto. The Setup program will not be able to successfully overwrite these files
if the files are locked by the Windows operating system.

RESOLUTION
==========

You can change the version of the Urlmon.dll and Wininet.dll files that are
included in your disk images by changing an entry in two of the Setup Wizard
tables.

For information about how to make these changes, see "Solution 3" in the
following article:

  Q174508 ODE: Installing Run-Time Application Breaks Microsoft Internet
  Explorer 3.x

STATUS
======

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that
are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION
================

At the time of this writing, if you click Ignore in the error message box, your
application is successfully installed without any side effects to Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4.0. However, Microsoft still recommends that you use the
resolution described in the "Resolutions" section to resolve the error message
completely.

REFERENCES
==========

For additional information about other issues involving the Office 97 Developer
Edition and Internet Explorer 4.0, click the article numbers below to view the
articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q174217 ODE97: Comcat.dll Can't Be Registered During Run-time Install

  Q179011 ODE: Running Microsoft ODE97 on a Computer with Internet Explorer 4.0

For additional information about other issues involving the Office 97 Developer
Edition and distributing applications, click the article numbers below to view
the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q160870 ACC: VBA Functions Break in Database with Missing References

  Q162884 ODE97: Troubleshooting ODE Setup Wizard Problems

Additional query words: pra wininet dll urlmon dll

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Keywords          : kberrmsg kbdta 
Technology        : kbOfficeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbOffice97Search kbOffice97 kbOffice97DevSearch
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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