Access 97 / SR2 on Vista

[Mark]

I know this is an old issue -- trying to install SR2 on Vista. I had no
problem installing Access 97, along with the Jet update, and the database
appears to be working fine. I would like to also install SR2, however.

This is the Home Basic edition of Vista. Somehow, I had previously installed
97 and SR2 on another computer with Vista and had not run into any problem.
Go figure. The only thing I remember doing was choosing "run as
administrator" for each step, including applying that to msaccess.exe.

The workaround I ran across involved temporarily replacing certain Vista
fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those
versions which come with SR2, then installing SR2, and then replacing the
original Vista fonts. This particular computer won't copy and paste the
Vista fonts (see posting to Vista newsgroup below).

If I can't get this workaround to work, is there a way I can manually apply
SR2? I've extracted the SR2 files using Run/<SR2 exe file> /c /t:<some
folder>

I just want the files relevant to Access 97 -- I don't want to disturb
Office Basic (Word, etc.) which was included with Vista.

Thanks for any suggestions (other than cursing Microsoft, which I'm already
quite good at).
Mark.

 

[Mark]

oops, forget to include the posting I mentioned (in case that matters).
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I need to install SR2 for Access 97 on Vista - Home Basic. While Access 97
installs fine, there's a known problem installing SR2 on Vista. The
workaround that I've come across involves temporarily replacing four Vista
fonts (comic.ttf, comicbd.ttf, tahoma.ttf, and tahomabd.ttf) with those
versions which come with SR2. This reportedly allows SR2 to be installed,
after which the four Vista fonts are copied back to the Windows/Fonts
folder.

This procedure begins with copying those four Vista fonts to a temporary
folder. I am unable to do this, however. If I use cntrl-c to copy and
cntrl-v to paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. If I
right-click on the font, the Copy command is not available. If I use
Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste, nothing is pasted into the temporary folder. Vista
will not allow full privileges for these fonts, even though I'm signed on as
Administrator.

Evidently, someone was able to accomplish this on Vista, but I can't. Either
there's a setting I'm overlooking, or that other person was using a
different version of Vista.

Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.