Give up on older Visual Studio versions.

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 Building NSSM from source\r
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-NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 2008.  Older Visual Studio\r
-releases may or may not work.\r
+NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 2008 and later.  Older Visual\r
+Studio releases may or may not work if you install an appropriate SDK and\r
+edit the nssm.vcproj and nssm.sln files to set a lower version number.\r
+They are known not to work with default settings.\r
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 NSSM will also compile with Visual Studio 2010 but the resulting executable\r
 will not run on versions of Windows older than XP SP2.  If you require\r