Access XP Workgroup Administrator

[paron]

We recently upgraded from 97 to XP. While WRKGADM.EXE is still in the \windows\system directory, and it still runs and tells you that you've successfully joined a workgroup, don't you believe it! It is totally non-functional in AccessXP, even though all indications are normal.

So, if you use it like you are accustomed to, you could be happily making changes to the User and Group Account for the Workgroup you think you just joined, when you are actually making changes to the Workgroup you think you just left. OOPS!!

Workgroup Administrator for AccessXP (the one that really works, not the one that says it does) is now a part of the Tools . . . Security menu. The change is not documented in the What's New in Access XP Help Page, but you can find it by entering "Workgroup" in the Help Index.

Ron

 

[paron]

Even more obnoxious is the fact that the Access2002 runtime version does the same thing, without asking.

I needed to evaluate an app distributed with Access2002 runtime, so, in my innocence, I installed it on my local machine. After I started the app and had a first look at it, I tried to go back to the Access97 full version that I use to make the apps for my agency. Oh, boy.

If you install the Access2002 runtime, then it will grab control and offer to convert any older versions of dbs to Access2002 (unless, I assume, you open Access97 first, and then the app.) I need the full version of Access97 to edit my other files.

So, I uninstalled the runtime. Lo and behold, my local machine no longer asks for my PW, because it is now set to the local copy of system.mdw. And, since I still need to finish evaluating the runtime, I have to either fool around with the startup or resetting the security all the time.

Sheesh.

Ron