Map View Installation

Map View is a single user program that is designed to use data directly from the CD (not from a hard drive) in Windows XP or earlier. However, it also will run in 32-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista.  

If you are installing or running Map View in a 32-bit version of Windows with User Account Control (UAC) enabled (which is the typical default setting in Windows 7 and Vista), you should set Windows to "Run the [Map View] program as Administrator". To do this, right-click on the Map View icon on the Windows desktop > select Properties > click the Compatibility tab > under Privilege Level, check "Run this program as an Administrator" > click OK.

If the shortcut icon for Map View does not automatically display on your Windows Desktop, a shortcut can be added after installation as follows.

To add a shortcut to the Windows Desktop for Map View :

  1. Click on Start > select Programs 
  2. Right-click on Map View 
  3. Select "Send to -- Desktop (create shortcut)".
To change the icon for Map View on the Windows Desktop:
  1. Right-click on Map View on the desktop
  2. Select Properties
  3. Click the "Change Icon" button
  4. Select an icon from the list of generic icons
  5. Click OK.

Map View Authorization 

Normal installations that run Map View from your CD drive do not require an authorization key. If needed, an authorization key can be provided only to the registered owner of the Map View CD. For CTI to be able to help you with Map View access authorization, please provide the following when you call for support (phone 1-941-371-2743 during normal weekday business hours):

  1. Who is the owner of the Map View you are using?
  2. What is the serial number printed on the Map View label and what color is the label? (Disks that lack a CTI label are counterfeit.)
  3. What is the letter of the CD drive (such as D, E or M) on which you are running Map View?
  4. What is the Access Code prompt it is giving?
  5. What version of Windows is running on your Computer? (Map View uses a 16-bit installer that is compatible with 32-bit versions of Windows, but is not designed to run in 64-bit versions of Windows.) 

Fix Path/File Access error

To fix a Path or File access error, insert the original Map View CD in the same CD drive from which Map View was installed. Ensure that the Map View CD is clean (with no finger prints or serious scratches.) 

If a message displays that "Your disk drive is not ready," click the "File Location" button on the message screen. Then, on the next screen, enter the letter of the drive in which the Map View CD resides followed immediately (with no space) by a colon symbol (:). 

 

For example, if the Map View disk is in a CD drive which Windows recognizes as letter E, then enter E: and then click the OK button. If your computer has only one CD drive, the typical default drive designation is letter D. Use Windows Explorer to determine the CD drive letter if you are unsure. 

Fix “Out of Memory” error  

Sometimes third party programs change/customize shared files in the Windows System to non-standard code. Then when other programs (such as Map View) call on this Windows file, it no longer works the same and can cause an "out of memory" or similar error.

 

To fix an "out of memory" or similar error when installing or using Map View:

  1. Open Windows Explorer to the C:\Windows\System folder
  2. Right-click on the file MSAJT110.dll and select Rename
  3. Highlight the .dll at the end of the file name and replace it with .old
  4. Press the Enter key to save the file with the name MSAJT110.old
  5. Right-click on the file VBRun300.dll and select Rename
  6. Highlight the .dll at the end of the file name and replace it with .old
  7. Press the Enter key to save the file with the name VBRun300.old
  8. (Sometimes but not usually you may also need to rename VBdb300.dll to VBdb300.old in the C:\Windows\System folder)
  9. Close the Windows Explorer and re-install Map View.

Other non-printing errors may require that the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) Jet Database Engine in Windows be repaired or updated. To repair the MDAC jet engine in Windows, go to /u/msjet40.aspx. To update MDAC,  go to /u/mdac28.aspx for Windows prior to XP SP2; go to /u/mdacXP.aspx for Windows XP SP2 and later. If the latest version of MDAC is already installed on your computer, it will not update. (For details see the related article, "Microsoft's instructions to obtain the latest service pack for Windows Jet database engine".)

 

If Map View used to work in the recent past (i.e., within the past month) on this computer, you can use the Windows system restore function to re-set Windows to its previous condition. To restore system files, follow the instructions in the related article, "Restore Windows System files".

 

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Fix "Division by Zero” error  

Microsoft has changed the underlying code base for printing in Windows since the Map View program was created. If you get a "division by zero" error when printing the current view in Map View, you will need to print the map using the Windows clipboard and another graphical editor program. The shortcut to put an image on the Windows clipboard is to simultaneously press the Alt/PrintScreen buttons when viewing the map. Then open a program that can edit images (such as Microsoft Paint or WordPad in the Windows Accessories) and Paste (Edit > Paste or use Ctrl/V) the map into this program. Print the map from your graphical editor program (you do not need to actually change the map image).  

 

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Note. Since Map View is a discontinued program, there are no plans to update either its data or its program code. 


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[rev. 12.08.07]