Running Dia with Windows

[Candace Phelps <cphelps ualberta ca>]

Hi,
I looked at the threads and I couldn't find anything about my  
question; please correct/redirect me if I am wrong.

I am trying to install Dia on my laptop with a Windows XP OS. I can  
figure out how to install GTK+ and Dia on my laptop, but I don't  
understand what I need to run dia from the command prompt. I don't  
even know how I can unzip the Dia files I have downloaded. I have a  
windows command prompt (obviously) and a PuTTY command prompt, but  
neither of these seem to work (or else I don't know how to use them  
with Dia).  I tried installing Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 to give me the  
command prompt I need, but this Toolkit is no longer available online  
(all the links are dead or redirect to Visual C++ IDE 2005). I  
installed the VC++ IDE but it obviously doesn't give me the command  
prompt I need. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it very  
much. Thanks.
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Sincerely,

Candace Phelps