What's the best way to do this?

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I would appreciate some advice to solve this problem:

A custom-written program at work refuses to work with the mdac version that
is installed by Office XP, but does work with older versions of Offic. The
programmer has communicated with MS and at the moment there is no workaround.

I am wondering whether installing 2 separate versions of my WinXP Pro, 1
with Office XP installed as the default version and 1 without OffXP to run
the other programme is a solution. If so, should I install WinXP Pro twice
in a dual boot setup? Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

Kang
 
Kang said:
I would appreciate some advice to solve this problem:

A custom-written program at work refuses to work with the mdac
version that is installed by Office XP, but does work with older
versions of Offic. The programmer has communicated with MS and at
the moment there is no workaround.

I am wondering whether installing 2 separate versions of my WinXP
Pro, 1 with Office XP installed as the default version and 1 without
OffXP to run the other programme is a solution. If so, should I
install WinXP Pro twice in a dual boot setup? Is there a better way
to do this?

Thanks.

Kang
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Dual booting XP with the same licence is a violation of the EULA. If you
wish to do this, you would need to purchase a second licence (unless your
company has an Open or Volume agreement). The second installation would not
activate.
 
What program is it exactly, if it is a compiled access app, you can use the
older version (should be covered with your new offxp licence)

What you do is copy msaccess.exe, system.mdw, utility.mdb and a couple of
other files (i cannot remember them all)

If not, you can always ask the programmer to update the program. Some places
will happily do this. Or get them to reference the dll files directly using
api calls instead.
 
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