Access 97 disabled when Office 2007 installed

[Maine Islander]

I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed Office 97
(Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my copy of Access
97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it reports "Not Enough
Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for the
limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has anyone
encountered this problem and resolved it?

 

[Maine Islander]

Correction to the text: I recently installed Office 2007 (not Office 97).

 

[Rick Brandt]

I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed
Office 97 (Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my
copy of Access 97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it
reports "Not Enough Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly
could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for
the limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has
anyone encountered this problem and resolved it?

There was a bug where Access 97 did not work when you had 1GB or more of
ram. There is an update that fixes it. You probably had the update
before the re-install.

 

[Maine Islander]

Rick,

Thank you for your response. Not sure I understand though. There is an
update for Access 97? I assumed that MS didn't provide support anymore for
the 97 version of Access.

The steps would be:
1. Reinstall Access 97
2. Download/Install the update? I would have to be able to install the
update without opening Access 97 because it won't even start - I just get the
"out of memory" window when I try to launch it.

Can you direct me to the downloadable update location?

Also: If I gigabyte ram would not work with Access 97, why was I able to use
it prior to updating MS office?

Thanks for your help!
Mark Robinson

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=befd7842-602e-42b0-89d2-6be39f1167c1
(don't forget to get SR1 as well).

You might also check http://support.microsoft.com/?id=161255

 

[John Mullan]

I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed Office 97
(Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my copy of Access
97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it reports "Not Enough
Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for the
limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has anyone
encountered this problem and resolved it?

I have a vague recollection from many years ago that a particular font
was required to be installed to solve this problem - mine was with an
early version of access (probably Acc97) which I wanted to keep when I
then installed Office 2000. Does this cause any memories to be jogged?

JohnM

 

[John Spencer]

I remember the font - Hattenschweiler. I'm not sure I remember the exact
problem associated with it.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

[John Mullan]

I remember the font - Hattenschweiler. I'm not sure I remember the
exact problem associated with it.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

That was a clue - the actual problem was that Access97 would not run
reporting 'No license for it on this computer'. Probably a completely
different problem for this thread - sorry cannot help further.

JohnM

 

[Maine Islander]

Thanks for the links Doug.

Any thoughts on why Access 97 worked (with 1 gig RAM) prior to updating MS
Office 2000 to Office 2007 (which did not include Access)?

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

As Rick already suggested, you probably already had the patch applied
previously. Or else you installed Access 97 before the problem occurred.