[@Peter Blaise] Hi again, Peter,
The installer bootstrap, ‘setup.exe’, being offered by SOS is the exact same program we offer from our website. Whatever is causing the issue you first experienced when attempting to download from SOS would cause the same problem when downloading from our own website, as you then also experienced.
The downloads from our website have offered v7 for 18 months or so, and the same system has been used for previous releases, and indeed for our latest release, v8. The complexity of Windows privileges, mixed with the vagueries of system services and controls being enabled or disabled, seems to be an ever moving target. A quick search on Google will show examples of problems experienced by many software vendors using Microsoft Installer technology.
We offer our software here for free in support of SOS. As a commercial business we only do that once we are focusing on a newer version. I am surprised you expect us to be giving away the current version of our commercial software.
You are more than welcome to review our latest release free of charge. You can download and install the new version from our website. It will run for 30 days which should be long enough for most reviews. Unfortunately, you may find the same MS Installer issues on your PC will affect v8 installation too.
Best wishes for the New Year,
Chris.