Install SiteFinity on Vista or Windows 7
Bullet Proof Guide to Installing Sitefinity 3.x
– content from sitefinitywatch.com
If you wanto to install Sitefinity on your local machine. Because Sitefinity is intended to be a server product, installing on an non-server computer can be challenging.
Above link provided a video & blog which describe to designed to be a guide to installing Sitefinity on Windows Vista and/or Windows 7. If you’re running Windows XP, you’ll find the Sitefinity install to be less challenging because XP uses IIS6 and the OS security isn’t as limiting.
Note: You aren’t required to run the Sitefinity install. Sitefinity is also distributed via a blank project zip file. This empty Sitefinity project can be opened in Visual Studio and does not require IIS.

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