VisioViewer not working

[Margaret Bartley]

I'm using IE 8 on a WinXP SP3 machine with lots of memory.

I just downloaded VisioView 2007, in order to read a .vsd file. Just before
that, I had downloaded, installed, and removed the VisioView 2003 reader. I
installed the 2003 version first because I'm running Office 2003 on my
machine, but when I opened the file, IE just showed a red x. So I removed it
in the Add/Removed section of the Control Panel and downloaded and installed
VisioView 2007, and got the same problem, a red x in the upper left.

I don't know if the file I'm trying to open is bad, or if there is something
not quite right with my IE settings.
I'm assuming the .vsd file is alright, because it's on Sue Mosher's website;
she must have thousands of downloads by now.

[David J Parker [MVP Visio]]

You must apply the Service Pack, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/28/updates-regarding-the-visio-viewer.aspx

Post by Margaret Bartley
I'm using IE 8 on a WinXP SP3 machine with lots of memory.
I just downloaded VisioView 2007, in order to read a .vsd file. Just
before that, I had downloaded, installed, and removed the VisioView 2003
reader. I installed the 2003 version first because I'm running Office
2003 on my machine, but when I opened the file, IE just showed a red x. So
I removed it in the Add/Removed section of the Control Panel and
downloaded and installed VisioView 2007, and got the same problem, a red
x in the upper left.
I don't know if the file I'm trying to open is bad, or if there is
something not quite right with my IE settings.
I'm assuming the .vsd file is alright, because it's on Sue Mosher's
website; she must have thousands of downloads by now.

[Margaret Bartley]

Is there another link?
The instructions on that page are bad.
When I clicked on the lnk to install Visio Viewer 2007 SP2", I got a 400 bad
URL error.

Post by David J Parker [MVP Visio]
You must apply the Service Pack, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/28/updates-regarding-the-visio-viewer.aspx

Post by Margaret Bartley
I'm using IE 8 on a WinXP SP3 machine with lots of memory.
I just downloaded VisioView 2007, in order to read a .vsd file. Just
before that, I had downloaded, installed, and removed the VisioView 2003
reader. I installed the 2003 version first because I'm running Office
2003 on my machine, but when I opened the file, IE just showed a red x.
So I removed it in the Add/Removed section of the Control Panel and
downloaded and installed VisioView 2007, and got the same problem, a red
x in the upper left.
I don't know if the file I'm trying to open is bad, or if there is
something not quite right with my IE settings.
I'm assuming the .vsd file is alright, because it's on Sue Mosher's
website; she must have thousands of downloads by now.

[David J Parker [MVP Visio]]

You are right, but there is a link at the bottom of the man Visio Viewer
page:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9733A0B0-E0F4-477C-B682-B11BDA63CD19&displaylang=en

Post by Margaret Bartley
Is there another link?
The instructions on that page are bad.
When I clicked on the lnk to install Visio Viewer 2007 SP2", I got a 400
bad URL error.

Post by David J Parker [MVP Visio]
You must apply the Service Pack, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2009/12/28/updates-regarding-the-visio-viewer.aspx

Post by Margaret Bartley
I'm using IE 8 on a WinXP SP3 machine with lots of memory.
I just downloaded VisioView 2007, in order to read a .vsd file. Just
before that, I had downloaded, installed, and removed the VisioView 2003
reader. I installed the 2003 version first because I'm running Office
2003 on my machine, but when I opened the file, IE just showed a red x.
So I removed it in the Add/Removed section of the Control Panel and
downloaded and installed VisioView 2007, and got the same problem, a
red x in the upper left.
I don't know if the file I'm trying to open is bad, or if there is
something not quite right with my IE settings.
I'm assuming the .vsd file is alright, because it's on Sue Mosher's
website; she must have thousands of downloads by now.