Installing Access 97 on Vista

Answering my own question, since I found a way to do it

(1) Install somewhere OTHER than into the default location. I installed
to C:\Apps\MSOffice97

(2) Edit the properties of the folder (I did the entire C:\Apps) such
that USERS have FULL CONTROL

(3) copy the system.mdw file to this location and point to it using
Workgroup Admin

(4) install SP2 and Jet3.5 (to solve the "Out of Memory" problem which
is what next comes up).


Done. Now Access 97 happily runs on Vista.

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Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes
chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:54:30 -0500, Chris Barnes wrote:

> DL wrote:
>> Try cross post to an Access group
>>
>>> (I looked for an Access newsgroup to post this to, but none of them seemed
>>> appropriate for this question)
>
>
> Reading all the way to the end of the OP would be helpful...

Just as reading all posts in a thread would be in your case. You're now the
3rd person to state exactly the same thing.

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If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.

The important thing is your satisfaction with the answer. My mistake was in
thinking that you didn't know the answer for the question you asked.
Obviously this is your hobby and your sole purpose was to solicit requests
and critique them based on some nebulous suitability index that only you
know. Fortunately, now I know too.


"Chris Barnes" <chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote in message
news:eGJyujoHJHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Beoweolf wrote:
>> Did you check to see if Access 97 is compatible with Vista? The fact that
>> it shows an error related to \system files could be a hint that it may be
>> time to update your application to something slightly more current.
>> Access 97, obviously, is several iterations below Access 2007, in
>> software years - that is ancient.
>
> A few years ago my wife and I bought some land and began building a house
> we had been dreaming of for 20+ years. We were very involved in every
> step of the process, doing ALOT of the work ourselves. But, not being
> professional construction homebuilders, we still hired a professional
> contractor to oversee everything (including the work we did). His name
> was Jay. We became pretty good friends during the process.
>
>
> During the building, my wife would often ask "can we do such-and-such".
>
> Jay always had the same answer: "Sure. All it takes it money".
>
>
> So it is with upgrading custom apps written in Access 97. Could it be
> updated to run in Access 2000,2002,2003,2007? Sure - all it would take
> is the money to pay the programmers. And for a program that ran "just
> fine" as it was, it just didn't make alot of sense to spend that money
> when we didn't have to.
>
>
> For the record, the entire app *is* being replaced (with QuickBooks -
> which tells you what kind of app it is/was). But we still need to be able
> to get into it for historical reasons.
>
> All this to simply say this: if you can't answer the question being asked
> (as others were able to do), keep your fingers off the keyboard.
>
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> Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes
> chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:36:34 -0700, "Beoweolf"
<zenner@zenner-assc.com> wrote:

>The important thing is your satisfaction with the answer. My mistake was in
>thinking that you didn't know the answer for the question you asked.

And in not knowing that he is a pretentious, pompous ass when he
perceives someone is questioning his knowledge.


>Obviously this is your hobby and your sole purpose was to solicit requests
>and critique them based on some nebulous suitability index that only you
>know. Fortunately, now I know too.
>
>
>"Chris Barnes" <chris-barnes@tamu.edu> wrote in message
>news:eGJyujoHJHA.3736@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Beoweolf wrote:
>>> Did you check to see if Access 97 is compatible with Vista? The fact that
>>> it shows an error related to \system files could be a hint that it may be
>>> time to update your application to something slightly more current.
>>> Access 97, obviously, is several iterations below Access 2007, in
>>> software years - that is ancient.
>>
>> A few years ago my wife and I bought some land and began building a house
>> we had been dreaming of for 20+ years. We were very involved in every
>> step of the process, doing ALOT of the work ourselves. But, not being
>> professional construction homebuilders, we still hired a professional
>> contractor to oversee everything (including the work we did). His name
>> was Jay. We became pretty good friends during the process.
>>
>>
>> During the building, my wife would often ask "can we do such-and-such".
>>
>> Jay always had the same answer: "Sure. All it takes it money".
>>
>>
>> So it is with upgrading custom apps written in Access 97. Could it be
>> updated to run in Access 2000,2002,2003,2007? Sure - all it would take
>> is the money to pay the programmers. And for a program that ran "just
>> fine" as it was, it just didn't make alot of sense to spend that money
>> when we didn't have to.
>>
>>
>> For the record, the entire app *is* being replaced (with QuickBooks -
>> which tells you what kind of app it is/was). But we still need to be able
>> to get into it for historical reasons.
>>
>> All this to simply say this: if you can't answer the question being asked
>> (as others were able to do), keep your fingers off the keyboard.
>>
>> --
>>
>> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
>> Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes
>> chris-barnes@tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

[henri]

Hi

It probably is a stupid question but what is SP2 and where can I find it, and where can I find the jet upgrade. I got to point 3 of CHris solution, but as you see I fail the knowledge to solve the stupid out of memory message