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Hi,

I finally managed yesterday to get version 15 installed.
Here the problem was that the setup utility after updating itself to 15.0.2 lost the original setting "Early map access". As soon as I ticked this option again navigator 15.0.2 appeared and was then installed.
This worked on Windows 7, Windows 10 and WINCE.

However not on Windows XP, there the Setup Utility also said it's updating itself to 15.0.2 and then has to restart what it did too. But it always came up as 14.1.2 and of course tried to install 14.1.2 navigator.

I worked around it in the way PrzemekSupak wrote, take the installation files from a win7/10 installation and put it on XP and execute them.
setup_pc_navigator.exe for Windows
pnp_app.rar for WINCE

This installation procedure in the last years has always been a pain.

Uli

are you opening Navigator FREE, or the commercial version?

try start/programs/navigator/pc navigator/navigator free (default settings)

I think you are installing v14 and maps for v15
are you using this link?
http://navigatorfree.mapfactor.com/

Hi, the situation is stii the same, "Setting files not found. Application will exit now." error comes up.

I deleted all data related Navigator, then installed again. But the same error, "Setting files not found. Application will exit now". I checked folders and files data. So map files are in "Data" folder.Navigator folders are the below;

ProgramData
　-- Navigator
-- 14.1
-- Data
-- espeak-data
-- fonts
-- images
-- earth_osm.mca
-- sounds_en_us.mca
-- sounds_xx_signal.mca
-- taiwan_osm.mca

Program Files (x86)
--Navigator14
-- PC_Navigator
-- config
-- map
-- Setup Utility

AppData
-- Roaming
-- Navigator
-- 14.1
-- x.y

Files seem to be OK. But I found the error on Setup log in x.y folder, "trayutil"

DMP 2015/08/12 10:37:20 Tray utility started.
DMP 2015/08/12 10:37:20 RcfReader: failed to open C:\Users\??\AppData\Local\Temp\regions.dcf
ERR 2015/08/12 10:37:20 SettingsCollector::constructor loading C:\Users\??\AppData\Local\Temp\regions.dcf & C:\Program Files (x86)\Navigator14\Setup Utility\dvd.dcf failed.

Navigator doesn't work on Win8.1 Japanese version? Because Japanese version has Japanese character folders. There is something wrong. \??\ folder name is Japanese character. I can not use Japanese character name Folder? Should I change to English name?

I'm having the same troubles as Uli:
*) Navigator version 14.3.2 was installed
*) Setup Utilility forced me to update to 15
*) I did (there is no alternative)
*) now Navigator version is 14.1.2

Uninstalling, deleting everything (except maps) and reinstalling installs Setup Utiliy 15.0.2, but Navigator version 14.1.2.

wtf?

As I wrote in my post, I deleted every Navigator related file, with no success.

I repeat again: I DELETED EVERY NAVIGATOR RELATED FILE, which certainly means also in "Program files" and "Program data". I even deleted every Mapfactor-registry-entry.

Result: Navigator version before is 14.3.2, after is 14.1.2

The downloaded "setup_pc_navigator.exe" shows in it's properties product version 14.1.2-1. There is no 15.x version anywhere.

Why isn't it possible to simply make this new setup-file downloadable in a direct way?

They are right.

Here it is how it "worked" for me.

Checked early maps in Setup utility 14.x.. I could update the Setup utility to 15.x. Checked early maps again. No new program version offered.

Uninstalled Setup utilty from windows including "ok" to "delete data" when requested. Found Setup utility setup at mapfactor.com and installed this. Then "Applikation installieren" on Setup utility and it requested download of Navigator setup - ok. Started Navigator - no maps. Copied maps from directory program data\navigator\x.y\data to 15\data. Started Navigator again and voila map are there.

Everything indicates Navigator 15, no more 14. Even the tray icon of the setup utility, which indicated to be version 12 even at version 14.

No I wonder how Nav14 worked with directory x.y but Nav15 only with directory 15. Does this mean, that for future updates I have to move data to the then next directories 16 and 17 and so on?

Edit:
Renamed data directories 14.1 and x.y. to alt 14.1 or alt x.y. Nav15 still worked.  Deleted 14. and moved x.y to Desktop (because there are still copies of all data). Nav15 still works.

@JambaFee

Please tell us with which program you extracted setup.dat, because I had the same idea and didn't know how to extract it.

Uli