"no valid license"

[John Abbott]

I'm trying to run Access 97 on a Windows 2000 machine. The
software was installed from a Microsoft Office
Professional Version CD. Word and Excel both work, but
Access won't load, I get an error message saying that
there is no valid license on the machine.

I went through the steps recommended in the Knowledge Base
and got nowhere.

One possibility is that the software wasn't installed by
the Administrator, rather by one of the users (the only
user). Would that cause such a problem?

 

[Chris]

If you do a seach like:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Access+No+License

You will recieve 195,000 hits. Most will point you to:

http://www.mvps.org/access/bugs/bugs0013.htm


Chris

 

[John]

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying to run Access 97 on a Windows 2000 machine. The
software was installed from a Microsoft Office
Professional Version CD. Word and Excel both work, but
Access won't load, I get an error message saying that
there is no valid license on the machine.

I went through the steps recommended in the Knowledge Base
and got nowhere.

One possibility is that the software wasn't installed by
the Administrator, rather by one of the users (the only
user). Would that cause such a problem?
.
have you loaded a office 2000 product. that same thing

happen to me and i uninstalled the office 2000 product and
reinstalled the access 97 and that worked