Installing data, Complete data installation – Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual
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9. On the Complete screen, click Finish.
Continue to
or to
Starting and Activating MapInfo Professional
.
Installing Data
To help you get started, Pitney Bowes Software Inc. provides you with some United States-based and
world-wide maps you can use as a background to your data.
To work with the sample data after installation, you must install to a folder that has permission to edit
(read and write permission). Some folders, such as the Program Files or Program Files (x86)
folder, do not have write permission by default when the User Account Control (UAC) is turned on.
Consult with your system administrator prior to installing.
To install the free data provided with MapInfo Professional:
1. From the MapInfo Professional DVD, click Install Products from the DVD Browser.
2. Click Introductory Data and Industry Samples.
3. Click Install Introductory Data and Industry Samples.
You may see a prompt for permission to continue. Click Allow or Yes to proceed (if you do not
respond and the message times-out, the install is unsuccessful).
4. On the Welcome screen, click Next to continue.
5. On the License Information screen, review the license. If accepting the terms, click Next to continue.
6. On the Setup Type screen, choose one of the following options:
• Complete – This option installs all datasets. Click Next and continue to
• Custom – This option lets you choose which datasets to install. Click Next and continue to
There are no special installation instructions for installing MapInfo Professional data in a Citrix environment.
Citrix users follow the
instructions to install MapInfo Professional data.
Complete Data Installation
Make sure you have completed the directions in
before beginning these instructions.
Choose this option to install all of the MapInfo Professional sample data.
To continue installing data using the Complete data instructions:
1. On the Destination Folder screen, either keep the default location or click Change to select a
different location to install the data to. The default installation path is C:\Program
Files\MapInfo\Data
. Click Next to continue.
On a 64-bit operating system, the default installation path is C:\Program Files
(x86)\MapInfo\Data
.
2. On the Related Products screen, choose one of the following options and then click Next.
• MapInfo Professional.
• MapInfo Runtime
If you will be using the data with both MapInfo Professional and MapInfo Runtime, select MapInfo
Professional.
3. If you selected MapInfo Professional in the previous step, a Question dialog box opens. Click Yes
to create workspace icons for the data.
4. On the Ready to Install the Program screen, click Install.
You are now ready to work with the sample data.
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