problem downloading project professional 2007

[slennon1972]

When launching this file, I expected to be taken to Windows Installer to

install the application so that I could begin using it to determine if it

will satisfy my needs. Instead, I had the following experiences:

In all instances I was given the options to "cancel", "save", or to "find a

program online to open it".

In two cases, I attempted to find a program online to open it. In each

case, I was diverted to the Windows File Association screen and offered

alternatives for finding a program that could run this file. Windows had no

suggestions of what application I should use.

In two other cases, I saved the file to my hard disk. The file saved each

time was "ProjectProfessional.img". When I attempted to launch this file, I

was diverted to the Windows File Association screen and offered alternatives

for finding a program that could run this file. Windows had no suggestions

of what application I should use.

Thanks, i'm not a very tech savvy guy so if you have a solution to this problem it would be appreciated.

[Yzöwl]

Read Number 3 on the instructions here!

[jaclaz]

Read Number 3 on the instructions here!

Well, I guess an "average user" wouldn't go very far from there, actually they say substantially to go to (if you haven't already got a suitable software) :

Expand the ProjectProfessional.IMG file to a blank CD using the software of your choice. If you do not already have software to do this, we suggest you look at Windows Marketplace and choose from the list displayed.

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/

where obviously you CANNOT find a suitable tool, actually NO tool whatever.

@slennon1972

Translated from Microsoftish the sentence:

Expand the ProjectProfessional.IMG file to a blank CD using the software of your choice. If you do not already have software to do this, we suggest you look at Windows Marketplace and choose from the list displayed.

means more or less:

We decided to misname (as usual) a perfectly normal and standard ISO 9660 CD image (for which everyone else uses the .iso extension) as .img (which is the extension everyone else uses for disk images) that you can burn (translation of "expand") with *any* app that you probably already have connected to "CD burning" like bundled with your CD/DVD writer or however that you can find *anywhere* (once you understand that there is NOTHING to EXPAND but a .iso image to burn). Additionally, but we won't tell you this, you don't actually need a CD or DVD writer at all, nor any optical media, as you can well use a "virtual CD" driver, such as IMDISK, or Virtual CloneDrive

Some links:

Burner:

http://www.imgburn.com/

Virtual CD drivers:

http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Most probably you can also simply open the stoopid IMG ISO in 7-zip, extracts contents to a folder on hard disk and install from there.

But anyway, your question should have been "I cannot find any tool to "expand" the ".img" file I downloaded from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=20599

What program application should I use/do you advise to do this?

jaclaz