Does Access runtime require installation?

[Guest]

If I distribute my database with the Access Runtime, is any installation
required on the part of the user? Or will they just have to open a single
..exe to use it?

 

[Guest]

Yes, the user has to run a setup package.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

They'll have to install the runtime. What the runtime is is msaccess.exe,
the same executable you have as part of Access. However, it's been limited
in what it can do through literally hundreds of registry entries.

When you distribute your application with the runtime, all you're doing is
creating an installation package that will install msaccess.exe (and alll
the related dlls, ocxs, exes and so on) plus your application. It doesn't
change your application in any way, shape or form.