Are there known issues with Vista and Acc2003

[John Moore]

I have a rather complex commercial Acc2003 application (tab controls,
50K+ lines of VBA code, etc.) that will not run well at all on Windows
Vista Ultimate. I have seen posts indicating that Acc2003 MDBs should
work on Vista. However, our particular file has too many problems to
be viable on a Vista platform. Even converting it to an Acc2007 accdb
file has no positive effect.

I realize that Vista is new and should be avoided like the plague, but
we have few choices if some of our clients go to Vista.

We have been all over the MS knowledgebase and these groups without
much luck. Are there any lists of known issues and or suggestions
gathered during Vista beta that are available and if so, where?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated….

 

[Allen Browne]

John, people may be able to offer more specific suggestions if they knew
what the issues were.

Are you using ActiveX controls or libraries beyond the standard 3? Is it
possible they are not present, not correctly registered, or do not have
adequate permissions under Vista? If so, it is not really an Access problem.
You probably know about libraries, but the basic ones for each version of
Access are listed here:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

Have you tried starting A2003 with a shortcut that has the Run As Adminster
box checked, or with UAC turned off? Particularly if you are running
multiple versions of Access, this is an issue. Details in:
Errors using multiple versions of Access under Vista
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/bug-17.html

I've just completed a fairly large MDB using Access 2003 on Vista. It has
hundreds of forms/reports, some with tab controls in subforms that are in
tab controls. It was a little different, and I am experiencing a lag issue,
e.g. when clicking in the Properties box it takes around half a second
before I can start typing which constantly means I end up typing into the
wrong place. Other than that, development was no less stable or problematic
than under WinXP.

 

[Aaron Kempf]

MDB has been obsolete for a decade

of COURSE you're gonig to have problems

move to Access Data Projects