Error 1324 when Installing ArcGIS Explorer Desktop

Anonymous User — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:06:41 GMT

Original User: arakish

I keep getting this error when attempting to install ArcGIS Explorer. For some reason, the installer thinks I have ArcGIS Explorer 9.2.500 installed on my system. However, I do not have such installed. I did have ArcGIS Explorer installed about four years ago (version 6, 7 ??). I uninstalled that version some two or three years ago when I got a copy of ArcMap. Didn't think I needed Explorer anymore.

However, I want to play around with the SDK for ArcGIS Explorer to create webmaps for a site project.

The Text of Error Message:
Error 1324. The folder path 'ArcGIS Explorer' contains an invalid character.

I have no idea what this means. I do not have ArcGIS Explorer installed on my system. Any help to solve this would be greatly appreciated.

Also see attached images.
ClickYes.png = the dialogue saying I have ArcGIS Explorer 9.2.500 installed (but don't).
Error1324.png = the error message that prevents installation.

rmfr

Re: Error 1324 when Installing ArcGIS Explorer Desktop

RichardRunyan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:12:59 GMT

I finally found the problem. It is in the Registry Entries made by the Explorer installation. In all entries, there is one thing in common:

F:/ArcGIS Explorer/bin/...

This now begs the question: Why did you make ArcGIS Explorer make Registry Entries that reference a drive that does not exist on a system unit?

This also explains why Explorer would never work on my system. There is no F: drive on my system.

Thus, again I ask: Why did you make ArcGIS Explorer make Registry Entries that point to DLLs on a non-existent drive?

Now I have to spend who knows how long manually removing these entries.

rmfr

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