README FOR SETUP VERIFIER UTILITY WHAT IS THE SETUP VERIFIER UTILITY?

The Setup Verifier Utility is designed to allow you to verify the installation s tate of products on your system. It can verify the following types of resources : Files Registry keys/values Windows Installer product codes Services

WHAT OPERATING SYSTEMS ARE SUPPORTED? This version of the Setup Verifier Utility will work properly on all Windows ope rating systems beginning with Windows 95. In order to verify Windows Installer p roduct codes, you must have a version of Windows Installer installed on your com puter. WHAT FILES ARE PART OF THE SETUP VERIFIER UTILITY? This version of the Setup Verifier Utility comes with the following files: setupverifier.exe The main executable file for the Setup Verifier Utility

setupverifier.ini A settings file that describes what products are listed i n the Setup Verifier Utility user interface; it also describes what actions to t ake to verify each product history.txt A text file that describes the changes in each relese of the Se tup Verifier Utility readme.txt This file

unicows.dll Helper DLL that allows the Setup Verifier Utility to work corre ctly on non-Unicode operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME HOW DO I USE THE SETUP VERIFIER UTILITY? When you download the Setup Verifier Utility, you can simply run it. It requires no installation program. When you do this, a dialog box appears with a list of all programs that can be v erified with this version of the Setup Verifier Utility. There are four buttons: View Readme Displays this readme file. View Log Verify Now Exit Displays the Setup Verifier Utility log file. Verifies the installation state of the selected product. Exits the Setup Verifier Utility.

If you click Verify Now, the Setup Verifier Utility will verify the state of all files, registry entries, and Windows Installer product codes and services assoc iated with the selected product. The specific information that will be verified is listed in the accompanying file setupverifier.ini. HOW DO I RUN THE SETUP VERIFIER UTILITY IN SILENT MODE? The Setup Verifier Utility can be run in silent mode in order to automate produc

t verification. Setupverifier.exe supports the following command line parameter s: /a This caused the utility to list all available products in the UI, regardless of whether or not the product is installed on the system. By def ault, the utility will detect the install state of each product and only list pr oducts that it detects are installed on the system /e [filename] This specifies the exact path of an error log file to be used by the utility. If this is not provided, the tool will create a new error log f ile named %temp%\setupverifier_errors_[timestamp].txt /l [filename] This specifies the exact path of an activity log file to be u sed by the utility. If this is not provided, the tool will create a new activity log file named %temp%\setupverifier_main_[timestamp].txt /p [product] This specifies the product to verify. This value must exactl y match one of the product names in the Products section of setupverifier.ini Setupverifier.exe is contained in a self-extracting package, so an additional sw itch must be used to suppress the UI from the self-extraction process. The foll owing example will allow silent verification of the product named .NET Framework 1.1: netfx_setupverifier.exe /q:a /c:"setupverifier.exe /p .NET Framework 1.1" The Setup Verifier Utility can return the following exit codes: 0 - verification completed successfully for the specified product 1 - the required file setupverifier.ini was not found in the same path as set upverifier.exe 2 - a product name was passed in that cannot be verified because it it condit ioned to not allow installation on the system that the verification tool is runn ing on 3 - a product name was passed in that does not exist in setupverifier.ini 100 - verification failed for the chosen product 1602 - verification was cancelled