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Visual Studio Service Pack 5 (sp5) will not install on WindowsXP

I downloaded the vs6sp5.exe file and then tried to run it, but I get a
windows error that this is not a valid windows32 application, so I cannot
install the update.

does anyone know why this is happening?

I'm installing this so that it will hopefully fix the problem that I am
having: the compiler freezes sometimes during a build process and cannot be
terminated without using the task manager to forcefully kill the process.
Nov 17 '05 #1
1 2177
Make sure the download wasn't corrupted and that you have enough free space
on the volume you are extracting this on (at least several 100 MB).

Ronald Laeremans
Visual C++ team

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I downloaded the vs6sp5.exe file and then tried to run it, but I get a
windows error that this is not a valid windows32 application, so I cannot
install the update.

does anyone know why this is happening?

I'm installing this so that it will hopefully fix the problem that I am
having: the compiler freezes sometimes during a build process and cannot
be
terminated without using the task manager to forcefully kill the process.

Nov 17 '05 #2

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