We have a legacy Access 97 database which we need to still develop / run on a Windows XP client (Access 97) and run only on Windows 10 clients (Access 2003).
Eventually we will have everything on Windows 10 clients with the latest version of Access and the database converted accordingly but the above is the situation for the near future.
This is our problem :
When an Access 2003 user opens the Access 97 database a Convert/Open window appears, prompting the user to either i) Convert the database to Access 2002/3 - not good or ii) Open the database (with the restriction that no changes can be made to the database design) - this is fine.
Q. Is there a registry setting, command line start-up setting (or other setting in Access 2003) that will disable the Convert/Open window so the database always opens unconverted i.e. remains in Access 97 format ?