If you installed MapPoint to a drive (such as your E: drive) and then decide to move it to another drive (such as your C: drive), MapPoint will not work properly unless you take a few extra steps. These steps are outline below.

Symptoms:

When launching the Application you may receive a message such as:

”A removable device or network share cannot be found. The feature you are trying to use is on a CD Rom drive. Please reconnect the device or try reinstalling the application.”

Or if launching a map from within RM2000 or RMA you may receive the following message: 

”MapPointControl.OCX not found or registered.”

Cause:

The Registry settings are still pointing to the old location of the MapPoint installation.

Resolution:

Step 1:

Search and replace the following keys in the Registry:

SoftwareMicrosoftMapPointUSAInstallTo

SoftwareMicrosoftMapPointUSAconstructionFilePath

They had “E:\Microsoft MapPoint” (old install directory) and change it to”C:\Program FilesMicrosoft MapPoint” (new installation directory).

Step 2:

Unregister and re-register the MapPointControl.OCX from the “C:\Program FilesMicrosoft MapPoint” directory.

More Information:

Warning: This procedure requires you to edit the computers registry, which if not done properly, can cause significant issues with your Operating System.