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I recently purchased a tablet PC with no CD drive. After trying several of the methods for installing MapPoint 2006 that were listed in the forum discussions involving "administrative install" and/or flash drives, nothing worked.

Here is a method that finally worked. It basically involves doing an "administrative install" (see the readme file on MapPoint disk 1) from a computer with a CD drive to a flash drive (at least 2GB) and then copying the resulting folder from the flash drive to the tablet PC's harddrive. Here are the details:

• Do an “administrative install” of MapPoint 2006 to the Flash Drive as follows:
  • Insert Disc 1 of MapPoint 2006 into the CD Drive on the computer
  • Insert the Flash Drive
  • Click Start and then click Run
  • Type in “cmd”, which gives you a DOS Command Prompt screen
  • Type in “x:\Setup.exe /a” which starts MapPoint’s administrative installation process (x is the drive letter of your CD)
  • Follow screen directions to do an administrative install, selecting the drive letter of your Flash Drive to install to
  • Insert Disk 2 (Run Disc) in the CD drive when prompted
• When done, copy the Administrative Installation folder you have created on the Flash Drive onto the harddrive of the tablet PC.
• Run the Setup.exe file from the MapPoint installation folder you have just created on the tablet PC's harddrive.
• The installation should then work (at least it did for me).