On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:00:57 -0500, Chris Barnes
<chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote:

>A google search of this topic showed some discussions of this exact
>problem, but nothing about how to actually solve the problem.

http://accessblog.net/2007/06/access-97-on-vista.html


>I have a user who needs to run Access97 on their brand new Vista
>computer (Enterprise - but I don't think that matters). At the end of
>the installation (setup.exe run as Administrator), I get an error that says
> "an error occurred at changing the workgroup database
> SETUP couldn't create a system.mdw file. Reboot your computer and
> run Workgroup Administrator before you run the application"
>
>So I did that (as Administrator).
>
>Nada.
>
>Copied a System.mdw file from another machine and put it in a directory
>called "C:\Apps\Office97Extras\" and pointed to it using Workgroup Admin.
>
>Still nada.
>
>
>
>I am officially out of ideas. Anyone else? Anyone? Bueller?
>
>
>(I looked for an Access newsgroup to post this to, but none of them
>seemed appropriate for this question)