error 1158 vodafone mobile broadband

phoenixlord

hay guys ime trying to sort out my uncle's netbook and hes after buying a vodafone mobile broadband device now any time i stick it in and run the setup it pops up with this error.

"1158: Error populating string. Verify that all strings in Setup.ini are valid."

i think my uncle asked the guys inside and the said something about it having metor software installed before lol.
was wondering if anyone has any ideas how to resolve this?

willows

The issue is that this is a 32 bit install trying to install on a 64 bit os. This should handle gracefully, but unfortunately it does not out of the box.

Heres what you have to do.

Set the .ini file to run in 32 bit mode.

Then you need to delete the registry entry for the vbscript and re register it as a 32bit dll.

Steps are,

If you have a 64-bit operating system, you will need to follow these steps:

Open a command line window as Administrator, which requires clicking Start typing cmd in the search box, then right-clicking on the cmd.exe program and choosing Run as Administrator. Next paste the following in the command line and hit enter.

reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}" /f

That previous command removes the incorrect entry for VBScript support on 64-bit Windows 7. Next you need to make sure VBScript is properly registered by typing:

c:\windows\syswow64\regsvr32 vbscript.dll

or simply regsvr32 vbscript.dll if you are already in the syswow64 directory.

After following these steps you should be able to install your program without issue.

Fixing Error 2738 on Windows 7 32-bit

For a 32-bit operating system, the steps are similar, but slightly different:

Open a command line window as Administrator, by clicking Start, typing cmd in the search box, then right-clicking on the cmd.exe program and choosing Run as Administrator. Next paste the following in the command line and hit enter.

reg delete "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8}" /f

That previous command removes the incorrect entry for VBScript support on 32-bit Windows 7. Next you need to make sure VBScript is properly registered by typing:

c:\windows\system32\regsvr32 vbscript.dll

or simply regsvr32 vbscript.dll if you are already in the syswow64 directory.

After following these steps you should be able to install your program without issue on a 32-bit version of Windows 7.

Additional notes: In my own experience with this, I found two instances of the registry key that needed deleting. Running the reg delete command twice for your appropriate operating system should take care of situations where this happens.