I doubt that has anything to do with the installer not working, but thanks for pointing that out. I should uncompress it for other reasons.
My PC does host my lab environment for development I do for work. Because of the way Hyper-V (the VM host i use) handles it's virtual machines, it forces the host PC to go through some virtual connections to access certain system resources (like my network connection). This gives the illusion to some poorly written installers that it is being installed on a virtual platform. Note this is likely due to the wrapper used to make the installer.
Another note on installers while I'm talking about them... It is considered poor form to use exe's as installers. MSI's are considered best practice these days.
Nevertheless, I'll see if uncompressing does anything for the installer.