I think I was the first to provide vbforums with the links to download the 7 CDs (from my Google Drive).
At my advanced age lethargy is one of my problems, so I have not gotten around to trying out the subsequent contributions by vbforums members.
I cannot see how many downloads there have been of your reader (thanks for sharing it)
If there are a lot of members using it, perhaps you could get it to show where the zip is no good (missing/corrupt)
And we could encourage our members to provide copies of their working version of the zip.
Rob
PS I too use XP 95% of the time
I have a PC with W10, and another with W8.1, which I use (when I have to)
You should give W8.1 a try.
W8 was a mess, but W8.1 is great
I use Classic Shell's Start Menu, and disable indexinng, and use Avast Free (to disable Defender, which we have far too little control over)