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Asked: 2026-06-13T20:37:54+00:00

I have a Win CE application for hand scanners, and I have made an

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I have a Win CE application for hand scanners, and I have made an automated installer for it so that users will be able to run a program from their PC to automatically install it to their devices without having to use wither ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center. I have put together a document of instructions (which I will try to attach to a comment) and followed them carefully – but when I run the resulting setup program, it only installs on my c: drive, and doesn’t do anything at all to the scanner. Please advise.
My PC has Windows 7, Windows Mobile Device Center, and the scanner is running Windows CE 5.00.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem was that the CAB .inf file and the custom installer ini files, both text files, were written using the Visual Studio 2008 text editor – and neither had ANSI encoding.

    An approach I found to be very helpful was to work out how to install manually from the command prompt so that I could find out what my project was supposed to be doing. For example:

    C:\Windows\WindowsMobile\CEAppMgr.exe c:\Progra~2\Microsoft\CEScanAppSetup\CustomInstaller.ini

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