Way to get Access 95 to work with more than 1MB ram?

[Jake D]

Does anyone know of a way to enable Access 95 (Ver 7) to work on a PC
with more than 1GB ram?

Thanks..

JD
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[Bob I]

Good luck there! When it was released 1 GB hard drives were just coming
out. What is the error you are getting?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

I assume you have been trying but haven't had success. I also doubt the
amount of RAM is the problem. Care to give us more details?

 

[Jake D]

Good luck there! When it was released 1 GB hard drives were just coming
out. What is the error you are getting?

To Bob and JoAnn:

Thank you for the replies. I upgraded my RAM from 512MB, by installing
an additional 1GB. After that, Access 95 failed to open, and I got an
error message saying : "Cannot open application. Out of memory" (or
words to that effect).

I've now reduced my RAM back to the previous 512MB so that I can use
Access 95. I gather, from Googling, that Access 95 doesn't normally
work with 1GB RAM. I'm hoping there's a fix, a patch or some trick to
overcome this.

Best regards,

JD
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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jake,

You may want to also post this in the MS Office Access discussion group through the link below.

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To Bob and JoAnn:

Thank you for the replies. I upgraded my RAM from 512MB, by installing
an additional 1GB. After that, Access 95 failed to open, and I got an
error message saying : "Cannot open application. Out of memory" (or
words to that effect).

I've now reduced my RAM back to the previous 512MB so that I can use
Access 95. I gather, from Googling, that Access 95 doesn't normally
work with 1GB RAM. I'm hoping there's a fix, a patch or some trick to
overcome this.

Best regards,

JD>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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[Bob I]

To Bob and JoAnn:

Thank you for the replies. I upgraded my RAM from 512MB, by installing
an additional 1GB. After that, Access 95 failed to open, and I got an
error message saying : "Cannot open application. Out of memory" (or
words to that effect).

I've now reduced my RAM back to the previous 512MB so that I can use
Access 95. I gather, from Googling, that Access 95 doesn't normally
work with 1GB RAM. I'm hoping there's a fix, a patch or some trick to
overcome this.

Best regards,

JD
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If you had Access 97 there is a fix but, since it it Access 95 you will
need to "cripple" memory.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/161255/en-us

What Operating System are you running? There may be a workaround there.

 

[Jake D]

If you had Access 97 there is a fix but, since it it Access 95 you will
need to "cripple" memory.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/161255/en-us

What Operating System are you running? There may be a workaround there.

Bob,
XP Home Edition, Ver 2002, with service pack 3.

Thanks,

JD

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[Bob I]

Bob,
XP Home Edition, Ver 2002, with service pack 3.

Thanks,

JD

Try this,

Start, Run, MSCONFIG.EXE, BOOT.INI tab, Advanced Options button, Tick
"/MAXMEM=" box, and then reduce the number a couple clicks. Restart
Windows so it takes effect, and try your Access 95.

 

[Jake D]

Start, Run, MSCONFIG.EXE, BOOT.INI tab, Advanced Options button, Tick
"/MAXMEM=" box, and then reduce the number a couple clicks. Restart
Windows so it takes effect, and try your Access 95.

FANTASTIC! It worked!! Thank you SO much!

In the MAXMEM option box, it said 512MB. I changed two clicks down to
510MB. Then I reinstalled the 1GB RAM chip and rebooted. Access 95
opened just fine!

If I'd had to do this by guesswork, I would have thought that the
maxmem would have needed to be set bigger rather than smaller... But,
hey, what works, works! Afterwards, I looked the MAXMEM option again,
and this time, the box was grayed out, and the adjacent radio button
is now unchecked. I'm mystified!

Anyway, thank you again for your help. Very much appreciated.

JD



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[Jake D]

PS

Since you seem to know about this kind of thing, there is another
memory error that I've been getting for a long time with Access 95. It
frequently throws up an error message saying "Not enough memory to
update the display. Please close unneeded programs."

Are you familiar with that one? I'm not sure when that one started,
but it was doing it when I only had 512MB RAM.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

JD

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[Bob I]

Perhaps run it in Compatibility mode? R-click the Shortcut, Properties,
Compatibility tab "Run this program in compatibility mode for "Windows 95"

 

[Bob I]

You're most welcome.

FANTASTIC! It worked!! Thank you SO much!

In the MAXMEM option box, it said 512MB. I changed two clicks down to
510MB. Then I reinstalled the 1GB RAM chip and rebooted. Access 95
opened just fine!

If I'd had to do this by guesswork, I would have thought that the
maxmem would have needed to be set bigger rather than smaller... But,
hey, what works, works! Afterwards, I looked the MAXMEM option again,
and this time, the box was grayed out, and the adjacent radio button
is now unchecked. I'm mystified!

Anyway, thank you again for your help. Very much appreciated.

JD



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