I see that I neglected to mention that the sale runs through 15 May, 2008.

"Bob Knowlden" wrote in message
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What version of Britannica are you trying to install?

I believe that Britannica 2008 is the first version that supports Vista. I
have no idea what the problem might be with the older versions, but it
wouldn't surprise me if the installer was broken. (I vaguely recall that
the installer didn't run all that smoothly under XP for B. 2007.)

One option would be to get the newer version. Britannica is having their
spring sale:

http://store.britannica.com/jump.jsp...=1%2C3%2 C151

The Ultimate DVD 2008 version is approx. $25, + $5 S&H. Use the promotion
code SPRSE36. (I doubt that it would be personal to me.)

I have it installed on Vista Home Premium X64. It appears to mostly work,
although the multimedia stuff (QuickTime) doesn't launch quite as it
should.

HTH.


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"John T" wrote in message
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I am trying to install an electronic edition of Britannica. Previously, it
took about 10 minutes, using 2 CDs on XP Pro

I did a major upgrade for but did not replace my DVD, CD, Power Supply,
or
Floppy.

My board is an Intel DG33FB
My chip is an Intel Core 2 Dual (e4500)
I have 2 GB DDR 667
and one mal-partitioned SATA drive. The Vista portion has 167 GB

Today, it took aver three hours to copy merely 329 MB of data onto the
other
partition using my HP 940i DVD writer. the program was not even half
done,
BTW I got several gray-out screens in the process. I could not do any
other
work because the darn machine hung.

I contacted HP and they blamed Microsoft, of course. They have no
firmware
updated for the writer.

Any suggestions?