I have tried the .NET setup rooms to no avail, so please don't get upset I am asking this question in this room. :-)

Ihave created a desktop application and a setup program to distribute it. This application goes to military personel who have sometimes old MSD's laptops that run Windows 2000 and have IE5.0.

Since .NET 2.0 requires IE5.1 the setup will give the User a message telling them to install IE5.1 or higher. How can I add say IE6 as a prerequisite component? I do not see this on the list of prerequisites. Can it be included? If so, how?

You can add a custom prerequisite that is not listed in the prerequisite dialog as follows:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165429(VS.80).aspx

The following links willhelp you understand the concepts:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/bootstrapper/

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7eh4aaa5(VS.80).aspx

I appreciate the response Chunsheng, however at this point I am not certain if this is a Service Pack issue (3 or 4). I am encouraging my customer to apply the service Pack and re-run the setup. The setup works on all their computers except their old MSD's in the field that don't have Internet connections and don't get Windows Updates.

So if I can confirm that is the problem, I guess I can include Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4 in the installation following your guidelines above.

Thanks

go to the properties of you deployed project.
clik on prerequisites.
This would solve your problem

That was my whole point. It is not in there as an option. The more research I do, this may be a bug that requires a service pack

That was my whole point, it is not in there. The research I am doing on this suggests that it may be a servive pack issue:

You can add a custom prerequisite that is not listed in the prerequisite dialog as follows:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165429(VS.80).aspx

The following links willhelp you understand the concepts:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/10/bootstrapper/

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7eh4aaa5(VS.80).aspx

I appreciate the response Chunsheng, however at this point I am not certain if this is a Service Pack issue (3 or 4). I am encouraging my customer to apply the service Pack and re-run the setup. The setup works on all their computers except their old MSD's in the field that don't have Internet connections and don't get Windows Updates.

So if I can confirm that is the problem, I guess I can include Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 or 4 in the installation following your guidelines above.

Thanks