Can't get Visual Fortran V11.0.072 to install on Vista 64 bit

[grantcls]

I already have Visual Studio 2008 installed on Vista 64 Bit Business Edition with SP1. When I try to install the Visual Fortran compiler I get popup dialog box with a message: "1325.Documents is not a valid short file name." The installation then gives a me a termination message and kicks out of the install.
I have full admin rights and am doing a default install. What's wrong?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

At what point in the install does this happen? Have you already passed the license page? I'm wondering if your temp folder path is unusual. From a command prompt, type:

SET TEMP

what does it display?

[grantcls]

Quoting - Steve Lionel (Intel)

At what point in the install does this happen? Have you already passed the license page? I'm wondering if your temp folder path is unusual. From a command prompt, type:

SET TEMP

what does it display?

Hi Steve,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I have already passed the license page when this happens.

When I type SET TEMP from a command line I get c:Users{my user name}AppDataLocalTemp

where {my user name} is my designated user login name that is 7 characters long.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Try this. Run the installer again, but when it supplies a default path to unpack the files, change it. By default it will be something like C:Program FilesIntelDownloadFortranCompilerPri11.0. Add ".072" to the path so that it is a new folder. Do you get the same problem? Is the installer unpacking onto the C disk?

[grantcls]

That looked promising at one point. The installer saw the remains of the previous failed attempts and told me that I needed to finish that install before doing this new install. I removed the created folders and tried again. When I did that I got the same message as before. ("1325.Documents is not...")

When I click OK on that dialog box I get a second more informative message that pops up. It states:

Error While intstalling package "C:Program Files (x86)IntelDownload|FortranCompilerPro11.0Installs1033uninstalluninstall.msi"
Fatal error during installation


...and yes, Microsoft has a typo in this message, they actually said "intstalling"

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ok, try this. Download and install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. Run it and if it shows Intel Visual Fortran installed, select it and remove Fortran. Then try the install again. You can run the setup.exe directly from the folder under Download.

[grantcls]

I managed to find the problem, or should I say problems. My Documents folder was on a network and the installer was only looking locally and I have a multicard reader that needed to have the drives renumbered as they were causing conflict with the "Documents" folder. The telling sign occurred when we tried to open up the Document folder probperties and nothing came up. I have managed to install the fortran compiler now and can seem to see it in Visual Studio. Now all I need to do is figure out how to take the code that I have, and build an executable.

Thanks very much for your help with this. A lot of what you talked me through led to the conclusions that got things solved.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Great! The basic steps are:

1. Create a new project of type Intel Fortran > Console Application > Empty Project
2. Right click on the project and select Add to Project > Existing items. Browse to your source files and click OK
3. Right click on the project and select Build.

See the supplied documentation (start in Help in VS) for more details and tips.