Error with installer :you must install the 32-bit Windows imaging component (WIC) before you run setup.

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Hello ,

I have a .net application developed in .net 4.0 and i created installer of same application using "Advanced Installer". Everything was working fine till last release of installer. Now when i run installer on clean windows 2003 server, it comes up with a error "you must install the 32-bit Windows imaging component (WIC) before you run setup."

My question is " Why i am facing this error now ?" and what is Windows imaging component (WIC) and how is it related with .net 4.0 and my installer?

Posted 28-Nov-11 18:58pm

deepakdynamite

Updated 28-Nov-11 19:05pm

Eduard Lu

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[no name] 29-Nov-11 1:06am

EDIT: added "code" tag

Member 8562388 27-Dec-13 11:46am

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 supported following OS versions:

Windows XP SP3
Windows Server 2003 SP2
Windows Vista SP1 or later
Windows Server 2008 (not supported on Server Core Role)
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2 (not supported on Server Core Role)
Windows 7 SP1
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851

This error coming because targeted OS is not [Windows Server 2003 SP2] it is [Windows Server 2003]
you need to install WIC component on unsupported OS to continue.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=32

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Nov-11 1:18am

I'm puzzled: how can you develop application or even just the installation to it and be unaware of the prerequisites?
--SA

deepakdynamite 29-Nov-11 1:44am

Installer was created before 5 months and was tested on Windows XP, Windows server 2003, Windows 7, Windows 2008 r2 and was tested numerous times. Even its working fine in market.Numerous clients have installer it and is working completlz fine. and i am aware of pre-requisites. I dont know how it happened in recently created installer

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-11-28T19:17:00

This is not actually an error. This is a requirements to install WIC which is a prerequisite to your application. How come you don't know that it is requires if you say you were the one who created the installation? See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Component[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Image_Acquisition[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee719654.aspx[^].

Not to worry. The user should simple install prerequisite before your application. What's wrong about it?

—SA