Using Access 2000 on Vista 2

[molly]

I searched the site for comments on using Access 2000 or 2003 on a new Vista notebook. I don't see any problems in the comments as their issues turned out to be unrelated.

So am I correct that my Access 2000 database on a Visa computer will not give me any problems?

I presently use windows XP.

thanks for your thoughts before i buy the notebook.

 

[AKMonkeyboy]

I have users that use a few of my databases on Vista. I haven't run into any major difficulties...except one.

The wonderful User Account Control feature will cause problems if you store any of your data in directory "c:\Program Files". Also, I have some batch files, and sometimes export reports. Doing so with UAC causes goofy permission / access errors... if you're exporting to the UAC protected directories.

My initial reaction was to ask users to turn off UAC, but this causes problems for other programs. SO - for frontend / backend databases at a minimum you should store the backend database in some folder other than those protected by UAC.



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[Tarnish]

Hi Molly,

Is your old version an upgrade disk? I haven't installed my 2003 version (access upgrade disk) on my vista machine, though I tried. IIRC, during the install it couldn't find an old version of office installed (I have a 2007 office version installed), and I don't THINK it even gave me a chance to insert a disk with one on it.

I wouldn't swear to that in court. Maybe I'm remembering wrong or maybe I didn't like the idea of having to take office off my desktop to be entitled to use access on my laptop (I would have been fine with removing access from the desktop, though).

Just thought I would mention that. I doubt it's an issue unless you are using an upgrade disk and, even then, I'm not guaranteeing anything here (see "I don't THINK" above).

T

 

[MasterRacker]

I was researching some other issues and came across this FAQ that lists a couple of Access on Vista issues.

http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/performancefaq.htm

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