I've had my Vista PC running for quite some months now without problems, as well as Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Photoshop. But not anymore... Yesterday I plugged in the Zune that I bought on a trip to the US in january. I got the installer / driver software from zune.net. During the installation the installer requested me to update my Zune firmware, which I did. Everything went smooth. I then left my PC for some hours to go to work. When I got back I was shown a dialog saying that my hardware configuration had...

If you have ever deployed .NET windows applications, you have without doubt tried the Visual Studio Install project type. The Install project will create .MSI install applications for you, they're great for basic installations, but nothing more than that. The .NET bootstrapper is quite lacking, at times it won't be able to find the framework download file as it's changed it's location, at other times it's not able to download it. And finally, if it does determine that the user needs the framework, it's shown in an ugly uncustomizable GUI. I've looked for an alternative, I'd prefer not to...