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Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista

Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:16:00 -0800
Yesterday I purchased MapPoint 2006 and attempted to install it on a machine 
running Vista Business. The installation completed, but when I attempted to 
use MapPoint it reported that it could not locate the "core" data
files (or 
that they were corrupt) and that various "classes" were not
registered. 
Reinstalled. Same result.

Installed on an XP machine and everything was fine.

So two questions: (1) Can MapPoint be run under Vista? and (2) what's the 
trick to installing and registering the various program components so that t 
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RE: Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:19:01 -0800
I am also in the same boat. I have Vista Ultimate and installed Mappoint 2006 
and I get the following error message

"Your registry settings for this application were not copied correctly. To

correct these settings, run Setup again for this application from the 
location where you originally installed it."

It seems that Mappoint is not supported in Windows Vista.  Any ideas when 
this will be supported?


"Hal B" wrote:

> Yesterday I purchased MapPoint 2006 and attempted to install it on a
machine 
> running Vista Business. The installation completed, but when I attempted to

> use MapPoint it reported that it could not locate the "core" data
files (or 
> that they were corrupt) and that various "classes" were not
registered. 
> Reinstalled. Same result.
> 
> Installed on an XP machine and everything was fine.
> 
> So two questions: (1) Can MapPoint be run under Vista? and (2) what's the 
> trick to installing and registering the various program components so that
t 
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Re: Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:15:54 -0500

"rodrigf3" <rodrigf3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2D9FFED1-CEC2-4727-8817-F25B9B47DF27@microsoft.com...
>I am also in the same boat. I have Vista Ultimate and installed Mappoint 
>2006
> and I get the following error message
>
> "Your registry settings for this application were not copied
correctly. To
> correct these settings, run Setup again for this application from the
> location where you originally installed it."
>
> It seems that Mappoint is not supported in Windows Vista.  Any ideas when
> this will be supported?



Looks like this is the consensus:

right click properties,
click on compatibility and
check run as administrator
-- 
Michael R. Mattys
MapPoint & Access Dev
www.mattysconsulting.com 

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Re: Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista
Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:31:29 -0500
"Michael R Mattys" <mmattys-at-rochester.rr.com> wrote in
message

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> Looks like this is the consensus:
>
> right click properties,
> click on compatibility and
> check run as administrator
> -- 
> Michael R. Mattys
> MapPoint & Access Dev
> www.mattysconsulting.com

Oh! That is to say, find the executable and
then perform that series of actions.

-- 
Michael R. Mattys
MapPoint & Access Dev
www.mattysconsulting.com 

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Re: Basic question: MapPoint 2006 and Vista
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:13:52 -0600
I think the reason that I don't have this problem is that my UAC has been 
turned off since the day I got this OS.




"Michael R Mattys" <mmattys-at-rochester.rr.com> wrote in
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> "Michael R Mattys" <mmattys-at-rochester.rr.com> wrote in
message
>
> news:47cb193a$0$17335$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>
>> Looks like this is the consensus:
>>
>> right click properties,
>> click on compatibility and
>> check run as administrator
>> -- 
>> Michael R. Mattys
>> MapPoint & Access Dev
>> www.mattysconsulting.com
>
> Oh! That is to say, find the executable and
> then perform that series of actions.
>
> -- 
> Michael R. Mattys
> MapPoint & Access Dev
> www.mattysconsulting.com
> 
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