How to install LoadRunner 9.52 on 64-bit win7

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I recently got Windows 7x64 installed on my laptop, and as per information from HP LoadRunner v9.52 does not work with Windows 7, let alone x64-so I got myself a virtual machine installed, where I have Win XP x86 for LoadRunner work.

Beeing a person who believes software shocould work in diverse environments, I also tried installing LoadRunner on the win 7 machine, specifically analysis and vugen as I do scripting with the laptop, no controller was needed. so I set out to install it and also did a few tricks on the way, things I knew wocould not work or had to be changed.

In short the following actions where taken during installation:

• Installed into C: \ Users \ [username] \ HP instead of Standard Program Files directory-this because vugen writes to ini files etc. All the time it needs write access to the Install Folder
• After v9.50 installation, modified registry as Per Richard bishops blog entry installing LoadRunner on 64 bit windows
• Installed all the patches (IE8 patch too since I have IE8)
• When staring vugen it complained about a DLL. I replaced this with another older version of the DLL .. And the complaints where gone!

At this point to analysis worked 100%, and vugen worked all the way to the point where a Web function was called. the call itself worked, and the result was retrieved but alas, the HTML Parser failed with a critical Exception error. so still I had not achieved 100% vugen, but I was able to record, and replay non-HTML pages fine.

Now last Tuesday, Microsoft released a massive patch pack (some 29 fixes I think it was) and just by accident I was demonstrating analysis and vugen to a friend-and to my great surprise vugen now replayed and parsed text/HTML content 100%!

So now I have myself a fully working LR v9.52 installation, and no longer see any immediate need to upgrade to the new ALM V11 just because people switch to win 7.

Enjoy!