Inno setup cannot launch exe

Question

I have created windows vb application running on 32bit machine and packaged through Inno Setup Compiler 5.4.2. Once i install the application in the machine successfully, it doesn't launch the application and log file shows all dependencies are installed successfully.

Can anyone help me to sort out this issue? Please go through the Inno script

[Setup] 
AppId={{32558ED7-C211-4AB1-9D3F-9F36F214531E}
AppName=MyApplication
AppVerName=MyApplication 
DefaultDirName={pf}\MyApplication
DefaultGroupName=MyApplication
LicenseFile=F:\README.TXT
OutputDir=F:\setUp
OutputBaseFilename=setup
Compression=lzma
SolidCompression=yes

[Languages]
Name: "english"; MessagesFile: "compiler:Default.isl"

[Tasks]
Name: "desktopicon"; Description: "{cm:CreateDesktopIcon}"; GroupDescription: "{cm:AdditionalIcons}"; Flags: unchecked


[Files]
Source: "MyApp4.0.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "XXX.DLL"; DestDir: "{app}\components"; Flags: ignoreversion
Source: "App.ocx"; DestDir: "{app}\components"; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile 
Source: "MSCOMCTL.OCX"; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: regserver restartreplace sharedfile;
Source: "ui.swf"; DestDir: "{app}\ui\"; Flags: ignoreversion 
[Icons]
Name: "{group}\MyApplication"; Filename: "{app}\MyApp4.0.exe"
Name: "{commondesktop}\MyApplication"; Filename: "{app}\MyApp4.0.exe"; Tasks: desktopicon

[Run]
Filename: "{app}\MyApp4.0.exe"; Description: "{cm:LaunchProgram,MyApplication}";

From a quick view I can't see anything wrong except that Description script property in [run] section is intended to use for caption of the do you want to run the application now check box on the wizard's finish page and it needs to have the postinstall flag specified, so I would try to remove it and keep there only the Filename property. Unfortunately I can't verify it at this time.. — TLama
The application setup file created by Inno compiler works properly as well as successfully installing and running the application on my development machine, but once i brought into new machine it wont,this is the embarrassing thing that i stucked on.. thank you — Jafar
This is very hard to answer. One thing is clear, you need to find out what is different on the new machine from your development one. What OS they are using, is it 32/64-bit OS, what are the user's (application) privileges (mostly if they are Vista up). Does your application require a working directory specified, are you trying to install it into the same directories ? — TLama

codegasm codegasm · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-27T05:15:31

Change your [Run] section to the following:

Filename: "{app}\{#MyAppExeName}"; Description: "{cm:LaunchProgram,{#StringChange(MyAppName, '&', '&&')}}"; Flags: nowait postinstall skipifsilent

Where #MyAppExeName is the name of your .exe file.

Inno setup cannot launch exe

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