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bugs >> Access vs Vista - 2 major problems

by ZGliYnk0NA » Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:28:03 GMT

On my pc and laptop I have MS Access 2.0, 97, 2000 and 2003, because I never
know which version my customers might be using. They all work well together
up to now but when I switched from Windows 2000 Pro to Vista Home Premium, I
get 2 recurring nightmare problems.
1 - Under Vista, Access keeps stopping without apparent reason. It says it
will find a solution but always reports back that it can't find one. Among
other times, I noticed this happening when copying a form design using Save
As. The same database will still work OK on the laptop under 2000 Pro.

2 - When my pc and laptop were networked [both using 2000 Pro] I now can't
do so, and databases on the pc get error messages "Can not access the data -
Network connection may be lost", and they are virtually useless because of
this.

Will someone with more hair than me PLEASE provide solutions to these ?
Many thanks in advance
Dave B.


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bugs >> Access vs Vista - 2 major problems

by MikeD » Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:47:17 GMT






I've no idea why you're asking this in a VB newsgroup. Try either an Access
or Vista newsgroup.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP Visual Basic




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bugs >> Access vs Vista - 2 major problems

by Jim Carlock » Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:08:58 GMT

"dibby44" asked...

Scroll down to the section here. Access 2.0 seems to be a
16-bit application.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-us/dnarvb4/html/msdn_apiole.asp

So perhaps Vista no longer supports 16-bit applications? Can
anyone here check to see if there is a command.com file with
Vista. The following link indicates to "kiss goodbye to 16-bit
legacy code." The link describes 64-bit Vista and there might
be a difference between that and 32-bit Vista?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/x64/

So perhaps there's some sort of problem involved with 16-bit
Access.

Don't know if this helps or not, but if not, my next guess leans
into that UAC thing causing some sort of problem.

Like MikeD suggested, the microsoft.public.access group is
probably more appropriate for the question, so the message
is getting cross posted there too.

--
Jim Carlock
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