Need help installing inventor
 

ok here we go.. i got to the autodesk site downloaded the 32bit version of Inventor. got it all extracted and im about to install it then..BAM
Operation completed sucessfully
failed to copy following files: SetupRes

then..

Setup initialization failed

thats it..but here the catch
im running MS Vista 32bit home premium:(
is this the problem?
or did i do something wrong?

ive installed inventor before but its always been on a xp machine and i never had and problems. Any Ideas?

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

i haven't had any luck running our old programs on vista either... i feel your pain!

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

I got my version of inventor to run just fine, and I have vista ulitmate.
What I maybe did different is not install anything else besides inventor, try that and it might work!

Good luck, and i feel your pain also... :)

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

You used the student downloader didn't you? The problem that I had with vista while downloading was that it didn't download everything... Use the zipped installation files instead.

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

...Or you can also use the FirstBase downloader tool. Might help.

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

yeah, I'm having the same problem with windows vista, you can download a fix from autodesk but you need to have the program already installed to use it which makes no sense.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

I don't have vista, but a team member does and his works fine (although he did use the students.autodesk.com site for the free download). Is it possible to install the downloader tool in Vista?

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

yeah, I have the student download program on vista, i have downloaded autodesk inventor but when the program goes to install, it says that the operating system is not supported.

Re: Need help installing inventor
 

I have just installed Inventor 2008 on both my Vista Ultimate x64 and my Vista Ultimate x86 boxes without any real issues.

On the x64 box I had to run setup32.exe directly since there is no setup64.exe, and the first time my download got courrupted(wouldn't de-compress), but both machines installed and ran fine. I did use the download tool.

I would try re-downloading.