No installation on win 7 64 bit?

[shakeninsane]

Okay, I feel like a nimrod, but I recently went from a win XP system to a win 7 64 bit, and of course I suddenly realized I needed my previous VLC player. I went to install, and saw that I needed to install the 64 bit VLC. I picked a random file on that index-website looking link (I chose the one called .zip as I haven't installed winrar yet, oops haha)

Anyway, .zip file downloaded, I took out the folder from the zip file.. and then what? I can open the player itself from the folder, but shouldn't there be some sort of installation? I couldn't find any "setups" or something that kinda .. uhm, well, made the VLC a software that gets suggested when I click "open with" on a video. Even when I look for all software, it's not there, obviously. Am I doing something wrong? I probably am, but I have no idea what. Should I just place the folder in the programme-location? But even so, shouldn't there be some installation prodecure?

[Chris777]

You dont need the 64bit version, the 32bit will work just fine on Windows 7 64bit.
Just download the main installer off the front VLC page or find it here http://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.1.0/win32 ... -win32.exe
I am running VLC 32bit on Windows 8.1 64bit and it works great.

Chris

[shakeninsane]

Ooh, right, haha. Silly me. I thought that from now on I needed all my software to be the 64-bit kind. Thanks, I will try the other version instead!

[alex5723]

It is better to run the portable (zip) version of VLC than to use the install version. Windows isn't fit to properly support any installed application.