Howdy y'all,
I'm the unofficial IT monkey here at our office and it has been decided that we need to include geologic maps with all of our reports from now on. So of course, today I was thrown the CD's of GAT data and told to figure it out. My first step was to install Explorer Desktop (which only seems to want to install in 32 bit for some reason) and try to load the layers from the CD onto my machine. After two hours of waiting to transfer the data over, I finally booted up Explorer and was instantly hit with many things.
First: It changed the theme to Windows 7 Basic
Second: It decided to hide literally everything on the screen under the basemap even though it was opening in windowed mode
Third: It took about three minutes to get the annoying basemap to go away and only appear in the window
Fourth: When I finally got into the program, I went to add content and selected one of the layers. Lo and behold, the progress bar appears...and immediately crashes the program. Reverting everything back to normal Windows 7.
It has done this every single time I have opened the program, and is getting to the point of frustration for me. I am well versed in technology and Windows 7 and I still can't get it to work, which means my users (who are all civil engineers) will never in a million years manage to make it work.
Now then, this build (2500) has been out for some time as far as I can tell, and I'm hoping that someone has found a fix to the issue out there. If anybody could tell me what i'm doing wrong, or what is causing the issue and how to resolve it, I would be very much obliged. Also, if anyone could tell me how to get the damn thing to install in the 64 bit version, that would be nice as well.
Thanks,
Alex