Thread: Post here please your help request regarding Garmin

Originally Posted by TenTwenty

Hi,

Always had a Garmin 10x that I used with a Nokia cellphone. Gone are those days and I would like to use the device on my laptop with nRoute and or GarminMobilePC. The thing is though that I never received an install dvd or cd with the device. It was sold as "part" of the phone package.

Downloading GarminMobilePC the software tells me that I need a previous installation on my laptop. Every one tells me to run the MSI and not the EXE. Thing is though that every thing I download that looks like GarminMobilePC is an EXE file. No MSI!

Is there a way to create the correct folder and a file within the folder with the correct filename as needed by the setup program. I know that this trick works with mapsource.

Downloaded EXE file is self-extracting archive.
Run WinRar program, point to EXE file and select "Extract To" (follow on-screen instructions).
Then you will have bunch of files, and one of them will be MAIN.msi, or just MAIN in Explorer (I hate this program) if "Hide known file extensions" is activated (and it is by default).
Run that MAIN (double-click)

P.S.
And please, if problem is in some map or program you downloaded in some thread, post questions in that thread, so other members who are downloading could see question and answer