diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-8.exe b/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-8.exe
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7403bfabf5c
Binary files /dev/null and b/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-8.exe differ
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c7d553ef5eb..8195407e56d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Support for MSVC 8 was added to bdist_wininst.
+
 - Bug #1446043: correctly raise a LookupError if an encoding name given
   to encodings.search_function() contains a dot.
 
diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.sln b/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.sln
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..25f16cfba27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.sln
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 9.00
+# Visual Studio 2005
+Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "wininst", "wininst-8.vcproj", "{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}"
+EndProject
+Global
+	GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
+		Debug|Win32 = Debug|Win32
+		Release|Win32 = Release|Win32
+	EndGlobalSection
+	GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
+		{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}.Debug|Win32.ActiveCfg = Debug|Win32
+		{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}.Debug|Win32.Build.0 = Debug|Win32
+		{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}.Release|Win32.ActiveCfg = Release|Win32
+		{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}.Release|Win32.Build.0 = Release|Win32
+	EndGlobalSection
+	GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
+		HideSolutionNode = FALSE
+	EndGlobalSection
+EndGlobal
diff --git a/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.vcproj b/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.vcproj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0147d1b3fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PC/bdist_wininst/wininst-8.vcproj
@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
+<VisualStudioProject
+	ProjectType="Visual C++"
+	Version="8.00"
+	Name="wininst"
+	ProjectGUID="{EB1C19C1-1F18-421E-9735-CAEE69DC6A3C}"
+	RootNamespace="wininst"
+	>
+	<Platforms>
+		<Platform
+			Name="Win32"
+		/>
+	</Platforms>
+	<ToolFiles>
+	</ToolFiles>
+	<Configurations>
+		<Configuration
+			Name="Release|Win32"
+			OutputDirectory=".\..\..\lib\distutils\command"
+			IntermediateDirectory=".\temp-release"
+			ConfigurationType="1"
+			InheritedPropertySheets="$(VCInstallDir)VCProjectDefaults\UpgradeFromVC71.vsprops"
+			UseOfMFC="0"
+			ATLMinimizesCRunTimeLibraryUsage="false"
+			CharacterSet="2"
+			>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPreBuildEventTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCCustomBuildTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCXMLDataGeneratorTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCMIDLTool"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="NDEBUG"
+				MkTypLibCompatible="true"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				TargetEnvironment="1"
+				TypeLibraryName=".\..\..\lib\distutils\command/wininst.tlb"
+				HeaderFileName=""
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+				Optimization="1"
+				InlineFunctionExpansion="1"
+				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="..\..\Include,..\..\Modules\zlib"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="WIN32;NDEBUG;_WINDOWS"
+				StringPooling="true"
+				RuntimeLibrary="2"
+				EnableFunctionLevelLinking="true"
+				UsePrecompiledHeader="0"
+				PrecompiledHeaderFile=".\temp-release/wininst.pch"
+				AssemblerListingLocation=".\temp-release/"
+				ObjectFile=".\temp-release/"
+				ProgramDataBaseFileName=".\temp-release/"
+				WarningLevel="3"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				CompileAs="0"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCManagedResourceCompilerTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCResourceCompilerTool"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="NDEBUG"
+				Culture="1031"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPreLinkEventTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalDependencies="imagehlp.lib comctl32.lib"
+				OutputFile="..\..\lib\distutils\command/wininst-8.exe"
+				LinkIncremental="1"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				IgnoreDefaultLibraryNames="LIBC"
+				ProgramDatabaseFile=".\..\..\lib\distutils\command/wininst-6.pdb"
+				SubSystem="2"
+				TargetMachine="1"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCALinkTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCManifestTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCXDCMakeTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCBscMakeTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCFxCopTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCAppVerifierTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCWebDeploymentTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPostBuildEventTool"
+			/>
+		</Configuration>
+		<Configuration
+			Name="Debug|Win32"
+			OutputDirectory=".\."
+			IntermediateDirectory=".\temp-debug"
+			ConfigurationType="1"
+			InheritedPropertySheets="$(VCInstallDir)VCProjectDefaults\UpgradeFromVC71.vsprops"
+			UseOfMFC="0"
+			ATLMinimizesCRunTimeLibraryUsage="false"
+			CharacterSet="2"
+			>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPreBuildEventTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCCustomBuildTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCXMLDataGeneratorTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCMIDLTool"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="_DEBUG"
+				MkTypLibCompatible="true"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				TargetEnvironment="1"
+				TypeLibraryName=".\./wininst.tlb"
+				HeaderFileName=""
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+				Optimization="0"
+				AdditionalIncludeDirectories="..\..\Include,..\..\Modules\zlib"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS"
+				RuntimeLibrary="2"
+				UsePrecompiledHeader="0"
+				PrecompiledHeaderFile=".\temp-debug/wininst.pch"
+				AssemblerListingLocation=".\temp-debug/"
+				ObjectFile=".\temp-debug/"
+				ProgramDataBaseFileName=".\temp-debug/"
+				BrowseInformation="1"
+				WarningLevel="3"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				DebugInformationFormat="1"
+				CompileAs="0"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCManagedResourceCompilerTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCResourceCompilerTool"
+				PreprocessorDefinitions="_DEBUG"
+				Culture="1031"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPreLinkEventTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCLinkerTool"
+				AdditionalDependencies="imagehlp.lib comctl32.lib"
+				OutputFile="..\..\lib\distutils\command/wininst-8_d.exe"
+				LinkIncremental="2"
+				SuppressStartupBanner="true"
+				IgnoreDefaultLibraryNames="LIBC"
+				GenerateDebugInformation="true"
+				SubSystem="2"
+				TargetMachine="1"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCALinkTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCManifestTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCXDCMakeTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCBscMakeTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCFxCopTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCAppVerifierTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCWebDeploymentTool"
+			/>
+			<Tool
+				Name="VCPostBuildEventTool"
+			/>
+		</Configuration>
+	</Configurations>
+	<References>
+	</References>
+	<Files>
+		<Filter
+			Name="Source Files"
+			Filter="cpp;c;cxx;rc;def;r;odl;idl;hpj;bat"
+			>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="extract.c"
+				>
+				<FileConfiguration
+					Name="Release|Win32"
+					>
+					<Tool
+						Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+						Optimization="1"
+						AdditionalIncludeDirectories=""
+						PreprocessorDefinitions=""
+					/>
+				</FileConfiguration>
+				<FileConfiguration
+					Name="Debug|Win32"
+					>
+					<Tool
+						Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+						Optimization="0"
+						AdditionalIncludeDirectories=""
+						PreprocessorDefinitions=""
+						BrowseInformation="1"
+					/>
+				</FileConfiguration>
+			</File>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="install.c"
+				>
+				<FileConfiguration
+					Name="Release|Win32"
+					>
+					<Tool
+						Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+						Optimization="1"
+						AdditionalIncludeDirectories=""
+						PreprocessorDefinitions=""
+					/>
+				</FileConfiguration>
+				<FileConfiguration
+					Name="Debug|Win32"
+					>
+					<Tool
+						Name="VCCLCompilerTool"
+						Optimization="0"
+						AdditionalIncludeDirectories=""
+						PreprocessorDefinitions=""
+						BrowseInformation="1"
+					/>
+				</FileConfiguration>
+			</File>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="install.rc"
+				>
+			</File>
+			<Filter
+				Name="zlib"
+				>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\adler32.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\crc32.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\inffast.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\inflate.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\inftrees.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+				<File
+					RelativePath="..\..\Modules\zlib\zutil.c"
+					>
+				</File>
+			</Filter>
+		</Filter>
+		<Filter
+			Name="Header Files"
+			Filter="h;hpp;hxx;hm;inl"
+			>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="archive.h"
+				>
+			</File>
+		</Filter>
+		<Filter
+			Name="Resource Files"
+			Filter="ico;cur;bmp;dlg;rc2;rct;bin;rgs;gif;jpg;jpeg;jpe"
+			>
+			<File
+				RelativePath="PythonPowered.bmp"
+				>
+			</File>
+		</Filter>
+	</Files>
+	<Globals>
+	</Globals>
+</VisualStudioProject>