Thanks Larry for all your efforts.

I am aware of most of what you are saying and I think it also explains the situation with the laptop.

On my desktop PC: I am a long time user of SampleTank 2.5 XT (hereafter ST2.5) which was included with some of the XpansionTank modules I purchased from IK. I used it with Sonar X3 Producer long before I bought BIAB and I have always used VSTi plugins only. I purchased BIAB Pro initially at the start of December 2014 and it installed OK and subsequently the EveryThingPAK upgrade mid December which I installed over the top of BIAB Pro as instructed by PG. I am pretty sure that when I installed BIAB Pro I deselected things I already had installed on the BIAB install options (Sampletank 2.5, Amplitube but not Hi-Q Instruments) to avoid issues with existing installations. So I assume that the reason I have the ST2.5 VSTi plugin on my desktop PC is because it came with the version I already had installed prior to installing BIAB. As you state, my latter assumption that the Hi-Q Instruments installer included the ST2.5 VSTi plugin was incorrect and that is why my laptop only has the DXi version.

On my laptop PC: I have only recently purchased it and it has little software on it other than BIAB. The intention was to use it to continue composing when away from my main PC and in the comfort of my sofa/lounge. To cut a long story short I should be able to get the VSTi onto it by installing the ST2.5 XT installer I downloaded ages ago from IK.

I'll see if this works and let you know. Thanks again for the information both here and in the other threads where you have contributed on this subject.

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