Installing Oracle Client on Windows 7

During the install of Oracle Client on my brand new Windows 7 machine, I got the following error:

This seemed like a showstopper to me, but was actually just bad usability from Oracle (surprise!):

Checking the checkbox changes the status from “Error” to “User verified”, and allows me to continue installing…

Great!

What I really wanted was the 64-bit versjon, but that’s another story…

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