Installed Coldfusion MX7 on Vista successfully.

It even started up but that is the limit of my testing. Dreamweaver 8 also installed OK and ran. Macromedia Fireworks installed but an odd Vista message was displayed stating that due to an incompatibility during the install process that the color system was changing to Vista Home Basic, from Home Premium. Interesting.  

Microsoft Expressions, a Dreamweaver like app, needless to say installed ok. And Apache 2.2.4 said it installed OK but was lying. I was displayed at least one message stating that there was an error.

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition which went on OK but does come with some baggage called SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. The installation of that came a cropper and gave out some messages about compatibility and stopped installing though staying within the setup process.

There were some patches to download. Downloaded the first 35mb patch (you call a 35mb file a patch? Ed) but it got stuck and abandoned the install and then displayed a message that there was another SQL Server installation running.

True, that was the original install of SQL Server which when it realised that patches were needed helpfully paused the install so that the patches could be downloaded and installed. They never tested that that’s for sure. Exited out of the SQL Server setup reran the first patch which went OK and then downloaded the second patch which was also installed OK.

Quote of the day

‘The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining’ John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)