So I tried downloading for the fourth time (using the same download manager
as for the third attempt), and this time it works. All the data from the
other three download attempts was completely wasted traffic.
I think seriously Microsoft needs to offer a download manager option on any
download over 500 MB. They offer it to you to download OS images (like when
I downloaded Windows 7 from the Microsoft site recently). So they should
offer it for any file of significant size. Otherwise how do you know why the
download has failed and avoid wasting traffic and cost?
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> OK this is getting REALLY annoying. I obtained the AIK for Vista some time
> ago and installed it on a Vista x86 computer and have used it since then.
>
> Now with Windows 7, I have a computer running x64 and I want to install
> the Windows 7 version of WAIK to build installations for Windows 7 x64 for
> our computers.
>
> In the last few days I have downloaded KB3AIK.iso about three times trying
> to get one that will work. I tried burning it to a DVD, and I also tried
> extracting it to a disk folder and running StartCD.exe. I also tried
> directly running the MSI file for the architecture. None of these work.
> One of the downloads was incomplete and as a result contained numerous
> incomplete files so I had to download again.
>
> The results so far are the same on x86 Vista or x64 Windows 7 and also the
> same whether the ISO was burned to a DVD, or the files extracted to a disk
> folder.
>
> When running StartCD.exe it opens in a command prompt window which quickly
> closes without anything happening. I opened a separate command prompt
> window to run StartCD.exe to see what was happening and saw the message
> "Program too big to fit in memory" which isn't true at all as this system
> has 2 GB installed. Anyone who knows their PC from way back knows that
> "Program too big to fit in memory" is an old MS-DOS error. You just don't
> see it any more in Windows. This error is occurring on two separate
> downloaded copies of the AIK ISO that were downloaded on different days on
> different PCs. The second download used a download manager to ensure the
> download was complete yet I still get this error message.
>
> The other thing I tried is directly executing the msi files for the
> installation I.e. waikx86.msi or waikamd64.msi yet they always come up
> with an error message saying "This installation package could not be
> opened. Contact the supplier to ensure this is a valid Windows package".
>
> With trying to download so far three times and getting errors every time
> it must be virtually impossible to be able to downoad this AIK reliably,
> even with a download manager verifying it is 100% complete download.
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