1. not true, find out what you did wrong, maybe tampered with boot sector, maybe your cd didn't burn right...and so on 2. not true, there must be some failure in your install, check windows\setuperr.log 3. search if someone else was talking about it, maybe it needs some component, I use Foxit reader 4. What is not compatible 5. Try MCE with that removed and you'll see it works, it keeps 1.0 which is needed for MCE 6. Because if you have MCE edition it does that on it own internally 7. What's that, no 8. Which part Try to be more informative...statements like "doesn't work" without proof will only annoy me and won't help anyone.