To agraham,
:sign0161: what a wally, my excuse is that I had been working since 6:00 am and it was late at night.
yes the error was
Error message "Cannot locate .Net Compact Framework 2.0 files."
When I downloaded the NETCFSetupv2.msi and installed that, it worked.:sign0060:
Thank you, much appreciated.
Thanks for all comments, now to learn how to use it.