Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro)

From	"P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject	Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro)
Date	2017-12-09 15:20 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<p0hgjd$e3s$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I have an application written in Delphi 4 Pro, that uses the Borland 
Database Engine (BDE). When I installed Delphi on my Win10 machine, it hung 
up during the BDE install. I unchecked the option and it installed OK. 
However, the BDE seemed to have been installed, and my application was able 
to build and run OK with the database functions.

The setup file I created using Inno Setup includes a section where it uses 
"minireg.exe" to install the BDE by running "bdeinst.dll" which was 
extracted from the bdeinst.cab file and included in the setup. It also hangs 
up, but apparently completes the installation in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Borland Shared\BDE

On the Inno Setup website I found a suggestion to use a newer install 
"bde511en.exe", which I found and downloaded on the Softonics website. It 
runs OK on Win10 (and Win8) but it is only for updating a previous BDE 
install. So I have kept the original bdeinst.dll in my setup, and informed 
customers that it will hang up on Win10, but clicking on the dialog box 
allows Windows to close it and proceed.

I don't know just what is involved in the BDE install. I could easily copy 
the files that I find in the BDE folder to the new installation, but there 
seem to be some registry entries as well, and it's difficult to find all the 
instances (a search also finds hex BDE). I don't know why Win10 is having 
problems - I have checked folder permissions and they seem identical for 
Win8 and Win10. I have done a search and found a few ideas, but nothing that 
solves the problem.

TIA,

Paul

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Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2017-12-09 15:20 -0500
  Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2017-12-10 12:34 +0000
  Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-12-10 21:31 +0700
    Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) P E Schoen <paul@peschoen.com> - 2017-12-10 20:41 -0500
      Re: Install of BDE hangs up on Win10 (Delphi4 Pro) P E Schoen <paul@peschoen.com> - 2017-12-10 22:53 -0500

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