I've been using SF8 for a while now and these are my findings:

PRO: It can save music files in the Quicktime format. Previously, I used Quicktime Pro to do this. I can now ditch the heavy-for-no-reason QT Pro in favor of a program I'm using for other purposes as well.

CON: This new version of SF requires .NET 1.1 which I'd like to avoid.

My questions:

1) Which components of .NET 1.1 are required for SF8 to function properly?
2) Can these components be installed/registered without installing the full .NET package?
3) Can the latter be done via SVCPACK (HFSLIP)?

What's worse is if you can't install either the .Net Framework 1.1 or 3.0 so that you can install Sound Forge (on Vista Ultimate).

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

If I do 1.1 I get this... Huh... well amazingly it's all of a sudden started installing correctly... Hrrmmm... and I've been trying this for the last hour! How weird is that... It did end up being the dotnetfx.exe file. (I think that is a larger/more complete file then what you generally download?). Oh well. I also went in to Turn windows features on and off and unchecked the 3.0 installation even though I don't think that had ever completed. It was saying a XP service pack needed to be installed. Now that 3.0 section is checked. Which I'm leaving as is.