try installing virtual PC 2007 on your vista system. Create a downgraded PC,
then install and run your application in that virtual OSE.


"Chris Barnes" <chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote in message
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>A google search of this topic showed some discussions of this exact
>problem, but nothing about how to actually solve the problem.
>
> 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)
>
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