FatherDrew

Hello, recently I have downloaded and installed Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and I'm quite estatic about this marvelous piece of software. I am new to programming in general, but I hope to eventually program games. The trouble is that I am having problems installing the Microsoft Platform SDK(here). I can download the file, but whenever I try to run it I get a 1619 Windows Installer error ("This installation package could not be opened. verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package"). Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.