@igor -- OK, I'll scrape out 4.8 again, and reinstall .418 again. This time I'll look for the install log. However, it won't be soon, as I normally work 10- or 11-hour days: the weekend looks good...
I should say that there were no error messages until I rebooted, so W2K did not object to the distributable as such. Having said that, in previous attempts to install and run v5 I was unable to find any trace of the MS*90.dll pack -- I have several other versions, *80, *70, etc in \WINNT\system32\, but no *90.
This download was from the Avast! site, using
http://download69.avast.com/iavs5x/setup_av_free_eng.exe. I assume the installer is able to suss my OS by itself and make the appropriate decisions?
@igor - Ummm... Silly question time. In most exe's, if I view them in EditPad I can find a section with a list of dll's. Looking through earlier v5's, I cannot find any mention of the Visual C++ expressed as MSVCR90.dll. Should I be able to see it?
@al968 - my mother always said "If you cannot say anything helpful or nice, say nothing." I'm not into flame wars, so nothing is what I'm saying now.
@Gopher John - Thank you for the links. As I said in my initial rant, while the many thoughtful members of this forum are more than willing to help this way, they should not have to. This really is something that Alwill has to do, and I'm going to give it one more go and work with igor to see if the .418 download is trying to install it.
Gordon.