David Blowers said:
I have a number of older programs such as Encyclopedia Britannica '98 and
Microsoft Access (Part of Office Professional for Windows 95) which do no
run
on Vista. The error message "There isn't enogh memory to complerte the OLE
Automation object operation on the OLE object". I am running a Toshiba
Satellite Pro Notebook with 1G of RAM. This is significantly more memory
than
I have had in previous machines where the programs worked fine.
Hi David,
The "memory to complete the Automation object operation" error sounds like
Access Runtime error 2749. This isn't referring to a shortage of global
system memory; rather, Access cannot allocate enough memory to complete some
OLE operation - there could be many causes. This error can occur, even on
earlier versions of Windows with lots of global memory. You may need to ask
in a newsgroup like microsoft.public.access for specific troubleshooting
suggestions.
However I'm not optimistic you will get Access 95 running well on Vista.
Office 95 is known to have compatibility problems with Vista. Office 2000 is
the earliest supported version of Office on Vista. Office 2003 and Office
2007 are the versions which have full support. See:
Description of the versions of Office that are supported on Windows
Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087
Your best bet may be to upgrade to a more current version of Office (or, to
forestall the inevitable follow-up post, look at free/cheap alternatives
such as OpenOffice).
As for Encyclopaedia Britannica, I have long since abandoned the CD version
in favour of the fully online version; it's more up to date and has a much
larger collection (assuming you have a broadband connection), it's even
faster. For that matter, I've largely abandoned Encyclopaedia Britannica in
favour of Wikipaedia ... but EB still has definite uses. Anyway, 2008
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate CD is compatible with Vista, and fairly
inexpensive.
You can attempt to force these apps into compatible behaviour by
right-clicking the program icon and selecting Properties, Compatibility from
the context menu. Set the Compatibility mode to Windows XP, Windows 98 or
similar and see if it helps. You might also need to run the programs "as
administrator" since these older apps tend to write data to directories
under C:\Program Files, which in Vista is not allowed for ordinary users.
Hope it helps a bit.
