Access 2007 runtime on a memory stick

[Guest]

Hi

Will it be possible to install and run access runtime 2007 on a usb memory
stick to distribute with a database file so clients can use the database
without having to install anything?

Regards

Ben

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Will it be possible to install and run access runtime 2007 on a usb memory
stick to distribute with a database file so clients can use the database
without having to install anything?

No.

The runtime is actually the same msaccess.exe as the full version of Access,
simply limited as to what it can do through literally hundreds of registry
entries. It needs all the support DLLs and other COM objects to be
installed.

 

[David W. Fenton]

No.

The runtime is actually the same msaccess.exe as the full version
of Access, simply limited as to what it can do through literally
hundreds of registry entries. It needs all the support DLLs and
other COM objects to be installed.

Do current versions of Access still put things in the Windows\System
folder? I would expect Vista to put an end to that, actually. And it
was always a terrible, terrible idea in the first place.

The registry is actually the problem, though.

The only way to do this, I'd think, is to have a boot image on your
memory stick, with a full installation of Windows, and that's going
to be specific to the hardware you made the image for.

 

[DAVID]

Or a virtual pc. if the target has ms virtoual pc intalled

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

Or a virtual pc. if the target has ms virtoual pc intalled

And licensing costs for the OS in the VPC. Unless, of course, you can
get Wine under Linux successfully running your version of Access.
www.winehq.com.

Tony
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