x64 or x86

30 Mar 2007 4:19 PM

Q. John Chen

I got a new machine. It is AMD Athlon 64 processor. OS is XP
Professional.

I am trying to install .NET 2.0 framework.

I downloaded NetFx64.exe (ver 2.0.50727.42). Double clicked on it and
it gave me:
Error creating process <C:\ .......\Install.exe>. Reason:C:\WINDOWS
\system32\advpack.dll.

Searched the web and it seems an older version of the framework - but
I got it from the OFFICIAL ms download site.

I also see post say that I shouldn't install x64 unless I have XP
64bit. Is there a special 64 bit version of XP? Or in my case, my XP
is just like the other 32 bit (don't know how to verify), I guess I
just need to install dotnetfx.exe instead of the x64 version?

Please advise

Thanks

John

30 Mar 2007 4:54 PM

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]

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"Q. John Chen" <qjc***@email.com> wrote in message
news:1175271565.129928.120380@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>I got a new machine. It is AMD Athlon 64 processor. OS is XP
> Professional.
>
> I am trying to install .NET 2.0 framework.
>
> I downloaded NetFx64.exe (ver 2.0.50727.42). Double clicked on it and
> it gave me:
> Error creating process <C:\ .......\Install.exe>. Reason:C:\WINDOWS
> \system32\advpack.dll.
>
> Searched the web and it seems an older version of the framework - but
> I got it from the OFFICIAL ms download site.
>
> I also see post say that I shouldn't install x64 unless I have XP
> 64bit. Is there a special 64 bit version of XP? Or in my case, my XP
> is just like the other 32 bit (don't know how to verify), I guess I
> just need to install dotnetfx.exe instead of the x64 version?

Yes, there's a 64 bit version of Windows - unless you're running that, you
can't install the x64 version of the .NET framework. You need to install
the x86 version instead, or change your OS to 64-bit windows.

-cd