Visual Studio Service Pack 5 (sp5) will not install on WindowsXP

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I downloaded the vs6sp5.exe file and then tried to run it, but I get a
windows error that this is not a valid windows32 application, so I cannot
install the update.

does anyone know why this is happening?

I'm installing this so that it will hopefully fix the problem that I am
having: the compiler freezes sometimes during a build process and cannot be
terminated without using the task manager to forcefully kill the process.
 
Make sure the download wasn't corrupted and that you have enough free space
on the volume you are extracting this on (at least several 100 MB).

Ronald Laeremans
Visual C++ team
 
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