installing 2009 on vista 64 bit?

hasd anyone successfully done this? what is the trick? I have tried
various approaches for the last 5 hours with no luck.

i have a brnad new vista 64 business setup. i have tried intalling the
vista 64bit 2009 download and additional files but a few of them willl
not install. i have tried the 2008 vista 64 download with no luck. i
tried our 2008 xp 64 cd's we have with no luck. uuuugh! help me
ppppplease. TIA!

 

There's no log file created showing what happened?

 

seems like ther was one but i forget what it said. an update
i was able to work thru the prereqs and get them all "installed" i
think except the windows desktop search of which i think isnt required
for vista 64 according to microsoft and the vsta_aide. it appeared to
install correctly but errors of i luanch it fro mthe programs
directory. anywya, i was able to get the swx dload to install
completely with no errors everything looks good. i restarted to be
safe. when i hit the shortcut nothing happens. any ideas?

 

if i browse to the actual solidworks.exe file and click it i get an
error:
C:\Program Files\SolidWorks\SLDWORKS.exe
This application has failed to start because its side-by-side
configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for
more detail.

 

event log
Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks
\sldworks.exe". Dependent Assembly
Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.762"
could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

 

What did sxstrace.exe say?
You do have a legal copy, right?
And the right version for your OS & hardware?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ion+failed"+Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ation+context+generation+failed"+&btnG=Search

What did your VAR or SW say?