Loading a prog to Win 98SE

.msi is an extension used for a type of Windows installer, so I don't think you want to change that. I'm coming up to my ten-year defenestration anniversary, so beyond that I'm not really sure :-).

Some googling suggests that Windows 98 didn't come with an installer that understands .msi files, but you can install it from Microsoft here:

That do it?

Pete

to .msi comes up, like register or something. Dont forget to use Total Uninstall 2 first (not 3).

NT

a standard part of later version windows but not older ones. Once that is on, .msi files will be associated with it, and double clicking one will automatically fire up windows installer which will do the rest.

(the link Pete gave should sort it out)

and ran easily.

Paste this link into your browser (IE6 / Firefox etc.):

You can save to disc later by re-visiting the web page.

Screenshots here:

I'll give it a try. Unfortunately the laptop came with only a dial up modem but no lead to fit that (it's got a special socket) I've bought a network card for the slot but seem to be having problems with that software too - perhaps that's one and the same thing.

The windows msi installer is tiny; only 1.6mb. That's smaller than the file you're trying to install so however you ported that over to the laptop from the pc, download the installer on the pc and do the same.

Could use PKZip and its disk spanning option to use a few floppies...

But I've just received a USB link cable bought off Ebay for pennies. Real struggle to install the provided driver on Win 98 - despite it saying it is suitable - but eventually got it done and working buy transferring just the wanted files to floppies. So exchanging stuff is now easy.

However, I tried installing TunerStudio on the main PC and can't. Tried downloading it again - same thing. Each time I do this I know why I prefer the RISC OS machine.;-)