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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