Setup Not Completed Successfully; Error w/ Modified SETUP.STF
Article ID: 119008
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 4.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Office 4.3 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Works 3.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q119008
SYMPTOMS
When you perform a post administrative setup using a modified SETUP.STF
file, you receive the following error message:
<application name> Setup was not completed successfully.
CAUSE
There are two possible causes for this error message:
- An invalid directory name was specified in the setup script. For more
information about this topic, query on the following words in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
specify and destination and setup and script
- The number groups that are used in various locations within the
SETUP.STF file were inadvertently modified. This can happen if
Windows is configured to use a space as the 1000 separator
(this is common in Europe), and the file is edited in a spreadsheet
program such as Microsoft Excel.
When the spreadsheet program reads the number in the SETUP.STF file and
Windows is using a space as the 1000 separator, the spreadsheet program
may interpret these numbers as one long number. When the file is saved,
the new number is saved in place of the number groups. This causes Setup
to fail.
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