Loading Airport Express Software onto my Vista Laptop

I have a Acer Aspire 7520 Laptop I have set up the Airport Express which is working fine with my laptop but cannot load the airport express software setup assistant, Vista keeps coming back with an error message so can not use my printer or Airtunes Please help Thanks Den Barrett

Hello Den Barrett. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
The earlier version of AirPort 4.2 for Windows is not compatible with Windows Vista, although I have heard reports that folks had some luck running it under WinXP-compatible mode.
I believe the new version 5.x is, however it's not available as a download.
The following is a workaround provided by another Discussions member ...
1. You will need a program called Less_MSIerables:
http://blogs.pingpoet.com/overflow/archive/2005/11/16/14995.aspx
2. Download it to your desktop
Unzip that file (Should end up in your unzipped file folder)
3. Now, download Airport Extreme (works for Airport Express, too) software:
http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=14697&cat=1&platform =osx&method=sa/AirPort521Update.exe
4. Use a program like winrar or winzip to uncompress that file to a new folder
5. Next go to the folder in which you saved the unzipped version of Less_Msierables
6. In a subfolder you will see a file called Lessmsi.
7. Right-click on this file
8. Go to properties.
9. Go to compatability.
10. Run in XP Mode
11. Apply
12. OK
13. Again right-click on icon.
14. Run as administrator.
15. Then click on the ... button to browse to the folder you uncompressed the AirPort521Update (adjust for whatever version they happen to be on)
16. You will see a list of many files, but the one of the first will be APUtil.exe.
17. Extract this file to a location that you can easily find.
18. A file folder will appear with a name like cab#APSetup.cab1
19. Open that file folder and you will see a file APUtil.exe
20. Click on that file, and the admin utility will open. You should be able to find your airport device.

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