Sound Forge 8.0 without .NET?

[Tomcat76]

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)?

[jcp411]

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.