Airport Express setup only with ethernet

I have been searching the entire internet for hours trying to solve my problem, but to no avail as everyone has a different problem to me.
I got my self an Airport Express, I have a windows 7 PC connected via ethernet cable to my 4 port ADSL2 wireless router.
I have plugged the Airport Express via ethernet to one of the ports on the router.
In my routers webpage, I can see the Airport Express in the DHCP client list with ip address. BUT...
The Airport utility software installed on my PC cannot find the Airport Express to set it up.
How do I configure it?

If I were to offer a guess you may have DHCP enabled on the Airport Express as well and therefore your PC cannot see the Express.
The simplest way would be to connect the Express directly to your PC RJ45 Port and configure using Airport Utility.

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