It won't harm anything it simply won't work.įrom the Command Prompt, and signed in as an Administrator, type the following as applicable and press ENTER: They MUST be there and in the indicated places or you'll get an error that the directory name is invalid. Note for those not used to using the command line in Windows, the double quotes in all of the examples are critical. 'C:Program Files (x86)GoogleGoogle Earthclientgoogleearth.exe' /RegServer (Google Earth non-Pro on Win 7, 8.x and 10) 'C:Program FilesGoogleGoogle Earthclientgoogleearth.exe' /RegServer (Google Earth in XP) 'C:Program FilesGoogleGoogle Earth Proclientgoogleearth.exe' /RegServer (Google Earth Pro in XP) 'C:Program Files (x86)GoogleGoogle Earth Proclientgoogleearth.exe' /RegServer (works with Google Earth Pro in Win 7.10) (Make sure you are in the C: root directory) Once you've reverted from the Command Prompt, and signed in as an Administrator, type the following as applicable and press ENTER: I've had to revert to a much earlier version, one that doesn't update automatically. Unfortunately the new GE won't work with MapSource or BaseCamp, and the earlier work arounds don't help either.
