new laptop

[wayne]

I just purchased a new laptop that is running Vista. I have a client who
insists on using Access97. I tried to load my Office 97 professional on
this machine and everything works except access. I get the message.
"Microsoft Access couldn't find file 'C:\Windows\system32\system.mdw". Can
anyone point me in the right direction. I have read Q241/2/30, but I have
not even been able to get the workaround to work.

 

[Rick Brandt]

I just purchased a new laptop that is running Vista. I have a client
who insists on using Access97. I tried to load my Office 97
professional on this machine and everything works except access. I
get the message. "Microsoft Access couldn't find file
'C:\Windows\system32\system.mdw". Can anyone point me in the right
direction. I have read Q241/2/30, but I have not even been able to
get the workaround to work.

Access 97 needs to at a minimum be set to "run as administrator" and in my
experience also set to a compatibility mode for an older version of Windows.

This is done by right-clicking on the executable MSAccess.exe and going to
the properties of the file.

 

[Evi]

http://microsoft-personal-operating-systems.hostweb.com/TopicMessages/micros
oft.public.windows.vista.general/2103428/1/Default.aspx
The writer states:
"I ran service release 1
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/downloads/CD010226191033.aspx) and still
had trouble so I ran service release 2 and ensured that the Jet database
version was 3.51 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172733/EN-US/).
I still got error messages until I remembered to run as Administrator, but
my ancient database is now up and running happily."

Evi

 

[Rick Brandt]

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried what you suggested, but no luck.
Still the same message

Any other ideas?

You are either getting that error because...

The System.mdw file exists at that location but the current account has no
read/write permissions to that folder.

OR

The System.mdw file does not exist at that location because Vista didn't
allow the install program to put it there.

You need to determine which of these is the case.

If the former you could always move System.mdw to a less secured location
and use the workgroup administrator tool to point the user's default
workgroup to the new location. If the latter then you might need to
re-install and run the installation program as administrator to ensure that
the file can be created.

 

[Wayne]

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried what you suggested, but no luck. Still
the same message

Any other ideas?
Wayne