How to uninstall Access Project without require install CD?

[Guest]

Hi I got a problem with one of my clients. He forgot where he put his install
CD. Now he wants to uninstall the current version of a Access Project (a mde
file packed with Access Package and Deploy Wizard and the setup file includes
Access 2003 run-time.)

My Question is how can he uninstall the Access Project without using install
CD.

BTW I saw some articles on MS website about how to manully uninstall an
Access project 6-8 months before, but I can't find it anymore.


Ming

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

In most cases, you should be able to delete the project and stop the
SQL-Service service if it is running locally. You may also have to delete a
shortcut in the Startup folder.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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[Albert D.Kallal]

As a quite note a access "project" has a special meaning, and generally
means you are using what is called a ADP project, and that is a system that
uses sql sever.

(hence, the other response talking about stopping the sql service is because
you used the common term "access project").

Anyway, I going to assume you mean you have a application you built, and
deployed using the package wizard for a2003, and you are NOT using a access
project which entails sql server.

The simple solution is to simply re-build the install disk for him, and send
him that.

For the future, you might consider building your install with two parts.

IF you build a runtime only install, and then 2nd disk with your application
(but no runtime), then your application CAN BE un-installed without the need
for the disk.....

There might be some other way to do this (hopefully someone else will chime
in).

About the best solution I can think of is to re-build the install (and, the
package wizard usually does save a "template" of how you build the install -
so, you might still have that templated used).

 

[Guest]

Thanks Kallal. It works.