The Advertised Application Will Not Be Installed – Quickmap

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When trying to install Quickmap, you may get this error:

The advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe. Contact your administrator to change the installation user interface option of the package to basic.

This error does not mean that the application is unsafe. It refers to the fact that it may be unsafe to install an application in non-basic mode, if the administrator of your computer network has specified that applications should not be installed with the full user interface.

To work around this, install Quickmap with the basic install user interface. To do this, install Quickmap from the command prompt using the following command:

For a Minimal install:
msiexec /i quickmap.msi /qb INSTOPT=”MINIMAL” TARGETDIR=”C:\Qmap”

For a Typical install:
msiexec /i quickmap.msi /qb INSTOPT=”MINIMAL” TARGETDIR=”C:\Qmap”

Step By Step Instructions

Here’s a step by step approach to fix the advertised application will not be installed because it might be unsafe error:

  1. Press CTRL+R
  2. Type cmd and press Enter. This will start the command prompt (black box).
  3. In the command prompt, type the drive letter of the drive containing your Quickmap installation, followed by : and Enter. For example, E: (Enter).
  4. Next type cd E:\Release then hit Enter. (Assuming E:\ is the drive containing the Quickmap installation).
  5. Next type msiexec /i quickmap.msi /qb INSTOPT=”MINIMAL” TARGETDIR=”C:\Qmap” and hit Enter. This assumes that you are installing Quickmap to C:\Qmap and that you are doing a minimal install. To do a typical install, specify “TYPICAL” instead of “MINIMAL”.
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  1. I’ve found that msiexec /i quickmap.msi /qn INSTOPT=”TYPICAL” TARGETDIR=”C:\Qmap” seems to fix the Application will not be installed error, but on one occassion, I started Quickmap before it had finished installing (I couldn’t see that the install was finished in quiet mode), this caused it to not install all the files from the Data directory (Qmap.mdb was missing when starting Quickmap).

    I fixed this by copying in all the files from ..\Disk1\Data\ into C:\Qmap\Data\