Installing Access

[Dan Lee]

I have an Access AP that I developed. I planned to run it on my clubs HP laptop, but I found that that machine does not have Access on it. It has Windows 10 with Word 2010, and Excel 2010. I have a distribution disc with the whole Office 2000 Suite.

Can I install just Access 2000 to that machine, or can I install the whole Office Suite 2000 without overwriting Word & Excel 2010?

Is there some shareware, that I can load to run my AP?

[ranman256]

some installs allow you to pick and choose the apps in the disk. youd checkmark Access and leave the others unselected.
But the install may just do it all. If you have a spare laptop to try it on, you can see what menus appear.
or
google it and there may be a document that shows their install process.

[CJ_London]

you can try but 2000 is very old. If you have written your app in 2010 it won't run in 2000 unless a) you have developed as a .mdb and b) you have not used anything that did not exist in 2000, and even then you may have problems. Also be aware that .mdb is 32bit - your tag says you are using 64bit access so this may also be a problem.

Probably your best bet if you have written in 2010 is to download the free access 2010 runtime (google it to find the download or visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=10910). But be aware runtime does not have navigation, ribbon (which includes the linked table manager) or shortcut menus although you can write your own equivalents. You must also have a form or autoexec macro to open automatically when the file is opened since you cannot select anything from the (non existent) navigation window. Runtime will also not handle errors unless you are managing them - it will either freeze or bomb out without warning so you need to ensure you have good error handling routines in your code/macros.

If you want to see how your app runs under runtime on your own machine, change your file extension to .accdr. Always a good idea to take a copy first, although you can change the file extension first.

[Dan Lee]

I am running Access 2000 on my Windows10 desktop. That's the machine that I used to develop the App. I have corrected my profile, but I could not select Access 2000. Thanks for the replies. I'll try them.

[CJ_London]

not sure if 2010 runtime will run an access 2000 db, but worth a try

[Dan Lee]

I loaded the disc into the drive of the desktop with Office 2000, and read the Autorun file.

[autorun]
OPEN=setup.EXE /AUTORUN
ICON=setup.EXE,1
shell\configure=&Configure...
shell\configure\command=setup.EXE
shell\install=&Install...
shell\install\command=setup.EXE
[ProductFeatures]
Feature1=ACCESSFiles
Feature2=ProductFiles
Feature3=WORDFiles
Feature4=EXCELFiles
Feature5=PPTFiles
Feature6=OUTLOOKFiles

Can I edit this file to get only access loaded?

[CJ_London]

see post #2. When you install, you should have the opportunity to select custom install and only select Access - deselect all other options. But no guarantees it will work if office 2010 is installed. You are in uncharted territory so strongly recommend you backup the system before attempting an install

[CJ_London]

Just a thought. If the computer already has Office 2010 installed, if it is the pro version, it comes with Access (2010) so you could just go to Control Panel>Programs, right click on Microsoft Office and select change and install access. It would be the safer thing to do.

[HiTechCoach]

You can use the free Access 2010 runtime to run your Access 2000 (and 2002/2003) MDB or MDE.

I find it best to keep only have a single version of all Office apps. If they already have Office 201o then use Access 2001 or the free 2010 runtime (Click Here)