Airport software version 5 for Windows not available for download?

Question

Hi, Apple.
You're kidding, right?
I can download the Airport 5 update for Windows, but that update won't run if AirPort 5 isn't already installed.
Where am I supposed to get it in the first place? My laptop is very tiny, it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive.
Don't bother replying to this.. By the time you read this message I will have already popped the CD in my Linux machine and copied the files over via SSH. Then I'll run the update.
In the future, please make things easier for me.
Furthermore, how about you update the Airport (N) itself so that it will add local machine's hostnames to the embedded DNS server? I mean, heck, you already have features that let me reserve IPs based on MAC address or DHCP client ID... Those machines in the least should be easy to resolve.
Cheers,
--Dave Loyall

Answer 1

I suspect that Apple wants us to buy the Airport Extreme, or replace our Airport Expresses with Apple TVs. The AX is a wireless G/B product, and the new draft is N ... which is better for streaming larger media files.
Anyway, you can try this for a Windows system:
1. You will need a program called Less_MSIerables. Google it.
2. Download it to your desktop and unzip that file (it should end up in your unzipped file folder)
3. Now, download Airport Extreme software.
4. Run
5. A window will open that states "This Update requires AirPort Version 5.0 to be Installed".
Don't exit from this window.
6. <Vista> Instead, go Start ->start search and type in %temp%. Enter. <XP: use Run instead of Search and type in %temp%. Enter.>
7. You will see a file folder called something like IXP050.TMP (the number varies)
8. Open it.
9. You should be able to see a file called APsetup.msi.
10. Click your mouse on it, but don't open it.
11. At the top of the window you will see the address of this file. If not, click the yellow file folder in the address bar. Copy that address.
12. Next go to the folder in which you saved the unzipped version of Less_MSIerables
13. In a subfolder you will see a file called Lessmsi.
14. Right-click on this file
<Vista Only>
15. Go to properties.
16. Go to compatability.
17. Run in XP Mode
18. Apply
19. OK
20. Again right-click on icon.
21. Run as administrator.
<Vista and XP>
22. In the window that pops up, paste the address of Apsetup.msi
23. You will see a list of many files, but one of the first will be APUtil.exe.
24. Extract this file to a location that you can easily find.
25. A file folder will appear with a name like cab#APSetup.cab1
26. Open that file folder and you will see a file APUtil.exe
27. Click on that file, and the admin utility will open. You should be able to find your airport device.
I suggest that you move this file to your desktop for easy access.
If you are doing this for an Apple computer, there are posts on how to do it; and I think it is a good deal simpler to do.
Peace out.