There really seems to have been a conscious change over at MS regarding this, all downloads are now offered via the 'MSDN download center', so I suggest the link to the Windows Installer runtime is changed to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/455/msdnco mpositedoc.xml#top for Win9x (Win95, Win98, WinME) systems, and http://msdn.microsoft.com/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/456/msdnco mpositedoc.xml for NT4 (Service Pack 3 and later.) hth --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sigbjorn Finne" To: Cc: "Hugs Bugs" Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 00:43 Subject: Re: Something wrong with Windows 98 installation??

John Rood jrood@mediaone.net writes:

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That is, I clicked on the link in the following sentence of your documentation:

In the unlikely event that your machine doesn't already have the Windows Installer engine/runtime installed, runtime redistributables can be found here. [<--link]

However, this too was unsuccessful, leading to a missing page at Microsoft.

How AM I supposed to set this thing up on my machine?

Hi,

you're on the right track, your machine doesn't seem to have the installer runtime installed. The download page pointed to is the right one, but either someone's temporarily messed things up at MS, or the page is really being moved (and the KB and other MS docs will be similarly updated, which sounds kind of silly, but stranger things have happened..)

When pages & sites go AWOL all of a sudden, I normally turn to Google's cache for help - you can get at a copy of the missing page at

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsd

k/instmsi.htm+instmsi&hl=en

The binaries that this page points to, do seem to point the real goods.

hth, --sigbjorn