Access 97 installation error in Windows Vista

C

Chlaris

Dear all,

On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
Administrator" appears with the message:

"An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"

On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title appears:

"Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you run
this application (-1011)."

Please help. Thx.

Chlaris
 
R

Rick Brandt

Chlaris said:
Dear all,

On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
Administrator" appears with the message:

"An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"

On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title
appears:
"Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you
run this application (-1011)."

Please help. Thx.

Chlaris

By default Access 97 placed the default System.MDW file in the Windows\System32
folder. This is a folder that Vista doesn't like you to use unless you run as
administrator. Either install Access 97 as an administrator of manually create
a System.MDW file in a less locked down location and join it using the Workgroup
Administrator tool.
 
C

Chlaris

Hello Rick,

How to make sure that I run as administrator in Windows Vista ?
Thx.
 
R

Rick Brandt

Douglas said:
Right-click on msaccess.exe and select Run As Adminstrator.

Actually in this case he would need to run the Office setup program as
administrator wouldn't he?

Needing to run msaccess.exe as administrator might be required for operational
reasons as well, but if he wants the setup program to be able to create
system.mdw in the System32 folder, then I expect that the setup.exe is what will
need to be run as administrator. Can that even be done to an exe that is on a
CD? If it's not he might need to actually log into his PC with the
Administrator account to do the install.

To the OP...I have run Access 97 runtimes on Vista and tested that, but I have
not tested installing Office 97 on Vista. The installation of the runtime did
not require me to do anything special, but I did so as a Windows user that was
in the Administrators group for the machine.
 
D

Douglas J. Steele

Rick Brandt said:
Actually in this case he would need to run the Office setup program as
administrator wouldn't he?

Needing to run msaccess.exe as administrator might be required for
operational reasons as well, but if he wants the setup program to be able
to create system.mdw in the System32 folder, then I expect that the
setup.exe is what will need to be run as administrator. Can that even be
done to an exe that is on a CD? If it's not he might need to actually log
into his PC with the Administrator account to do the install.

To the OP...I have run Access 97 runtimes on Vista and tested that, but I
have not tested installing Office 97 on Vista. The installation of the
runtime did not require me to do anything special, but I did so as a
Windows user that was in the Administrators group for the machine.

Not 100% sure whether it's only for installation. If he has multiple
versions of Access on his machine, he'll likely need to run as Admin at
least if he's switching to use a new version from the previous time, since
Access wants to make a number of registry updates when you move from version
to version.
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Top