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Installed MS Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/downloadand^{Image Removed} installed the Service Pack 1.

On this page I followed the link in Step 4 "Install the platform SDK"; on the next page I clicked on the link in Step 2 "Platform SDK" and ended up here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0BAF2B35-C656-4969-ACE8-E4C0C0716ADB&displaylang=en^{Image Removed}
"Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK Web Install"
I downloaded 'PSDK-x86.exe', chose a Typical install.

Next I installed the "Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en^{Image Removed}
When I launched the installer it asked me to choose between "Repair" and (I think) "Remove" an existing installation. I chose "Repair".

Finally I downloaded and installed ".NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x86)" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FE6F2099-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=en^{Image Removed}
Obtained ROOT source from their CVS repository using the tag v5.14.00e http://root.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ROOT/PatchesV5-14-00^{Image Removed}

Downloaded Python 2.5 for windows
We decided to upgrade to Python 2.5 at this point in the Core Meeting from March 13, 2007
We double-checked ROOT's abilty to handle this version of Python and were pleased to find this ROOT forum discussion: http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4359^{Image Removed}

Obtained FFTW 3.1.2 from http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html^{Image Removed}
downloaded:  libxml2-2.6.15.win32 from Planet Mirror
downloaded gccxml from http://www.gccxml.org/HTML/Index.html^{Image Removed}

Skipped CERNLIB, Oracle

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