fortan 9 install failure on Vista

[beau]

We are using ifort version 9. We have not upgraded this in many years in that this version is adequate for our needs and does not justify the maintenance royalties. We are migrating to Windows Vista and this version gives errors during installation. Is there a patch for this version that runs on Vista as it would be quite onerous to be forced to upgrade just for the ability of running on Vista.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Version 9 is not supported on Vista and there is no "patch". 9.1.033 is the earliest version that we know of to work on Vista, though we did not officially support Vista until version 10.0.

You didn't say what the installation errors were, though.

If you decided to upgrade to Vista, you should expect that much of your third-party software will also need upgrades.

[g_f_thomas]

I've had no problems (un)installing IVF 9's and 10's on Vista. Ditto for MKL's, VTune's, and Thread Profiler's. The only failure was with Thread Checker's but this is not a fault of Vista but rather it is due to an internal error in the product's msi.

Gerry