Windows Installer Pop up Query

[John D O'Connor]

I'm running both Access 2000 and Access 97 on my PC using Win2000. I have an
database that is run only on Access97. Everything is fine except that ever
time I click on a button to access a certain part of the database I receive
the "Windows Installer" dialogue box. I cancel it and the program performs
as normal - but that happens everytime.

My guess is that its a Calendar function under my applications that Windows
Installer is trying to install.

Does anyone have any idea how I can permanetly get rid of this installer
feature poping up. If I accept it (as I have in the past) my application
will start opening under Access 2000 which I can't as it causes problems
with the database. There is no problem with another PC under Win2000 that
only has Access97 installed - not Access 2000 as well. Problem with my PC is
that I need Access2000 on it to run other databases.

Any ideas?

Thanks

John

 

[Arvin Meyer]

Replace the calendar with a calendar form which can be run from any version
of Access:

http://www.datastrat.com/Download/Calendar97.zip

After you've run Access 97 (which silently registers everything) you need to
get it to stop re-registering. To do that, find the msaccess.srg file which
should be in the same folder as the msaccess.exe file. Normally:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\

Rename the srg to srgold and create a new, blank text file in Notepad and
name it msaccess.srg. Now the 97 version will stop re-registering. You can
let the 2000 version register now. Use shortcut to open any 97 files in the
correct version.

One of my little tricks is to add shortcuts to each version of the Access
executable on my machine in the SendTo folder. I can then right-click on a
file and send it to the correct version.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[John]

Andy, thanks for your reply unfortuanetly re-naming the msaccess.srg file
etc does not work I still get the Windows Installer pop-up

Rgds

John