Juanmanuel

Yes it has.
I received an email with a link to the file.

There is next to nothing I know about Houdini…yet, but as I had this problem myself, I just had to share the knowledge. And what with the holidays, internetdom seems deserted. I had to live the Christmas spirit.

Glad to hear you got your installation going

I had something similar, but in Windows XP x64.

Turns out it was a firewall thing. Check your firewall settings, and I'm 99% sure, you'll be able to go beyond the splash screen