Yes, you can install and run Output Designer on Windows Vista. It’s actually not hard to do, but because this stuff is all new to everyone I’ll provide lots of screenshots to make it easy to follow.

First, you might be starting off your installation with a pre-packed web archive – which would be one file – or an expanded directory of files.

If you have the single file, you’ll want to run that first and expand it somewhere as follows. If yours is already expanded, skip down three screenshots and start reading again.

If you have the single file, it will look much like this. Just double-click it to start it off.

You will then see this message. We’re only expanding files at this point, so say yes.

Choose a place to unpack that you can find again. The default location will be pretty confusing, so I chose C:\OutputDesigner.

You will then receive the real installation screen. Click the “Exit” at the bottom-right corner.

Then you will have a directory with your unpacked installer files in them.

Now you want to Right-Click the main setup.exe application and choose “Run as Administrator” from the popup menu.
You may be asked to provide credentials or to allow the action, in which case you should do that.

This runs the main installer again, from which you can choose to install Output Designer as you normally would.

Once you get it installed, you’re good to go!