About Path Error?

I am a student learning embly language usin Microsoft Visual c++ 2005 express addition. We installed program to default location and then download Irvine examples files to C:\Irvine which is to be the path for using ,storing the files however after the build of file is complete the software will not run Says can't start program the file can not be found it also will not run any of the sample programs . My teacher and I have gone over the setup and can not locate a problem. Does any one have a suggestion as to how I can resolve this issue.