Deactivate MS Access 97

[Thomas Wohlgemuth]

Hello,
how can I deactivate MS Access 97 on a Windows 2000 PC without using
deinstallation routine from MS Office 97. For example delete specific files
or registry keys.
It´s important that the other Office 97 applications are not corrupted by
this action!

THX
Thomas

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Deleting msaccess.exe should go a long way!

 

[Thomas Wohlgemuth]

"Douglas J. Steele wrote

Deleting msaccess.exe should go a long way!

It´s to similiar and to easy to reset by the user.
I look for a way to make it hard to reset it.

Thomas

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

"Douglas J. Steele wrote

It´s to similiar and to easy to reset by the user.
I look for a way to make it hard to reset it.

Maybe you need to explain the situation in more detail then.

If you delete the file, from where are they going to get another copy of
msaccess.exe?

If you're intent on not letting them use Access, why aren't you willing to
uninstall it the proper way?

 

[Thomas Wohlgemuth]

"Douglas J. Steelewrote

Maybe you need to explain the situation in more detail then.

If you delete the file, from where are they going to get another copy of
msaccess.exe?

If you're intent on not letting them use Access, why aren't you willing to
uninstall it the proper way?

I talk about more than 2000 PC. With a litlle routine in a login script it
is no problem to delete some files or registry keys.
The problem is, that if I delete the file on one computer they can copy it
from another until that moment that all will be deleted!

Thomas

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

I think this is a network/system administration issue, Thomas, rather than
an Access issue. I'm sure there must be ways for an admin to prevent users
from installing Access, but I can't help with the details, you might want to
try asking the question in a newsgroup dedicated to administrative and
security issues. (Most of us here spend our time trying to help users
install and use Access, not prevent them!

In the longer term, it might also be worth asking why these users want to
install Access. What needs of these users are not being met by the
'approved' system? In the longer term, giving the users what they need is
usually a better policy than trying to prevent them from working around the
problem - if you cut off one workaround, inventive users will find another,
anyway.