Install Access97 AND AccessXP on one WindowsXP machine

[DarrylQA]

I have Office XP Developer on my home computer which has a Pentium4 running Windows XP Home User operating system. At work, the company database (to which I will be programming) is in Access 97. Since I don't want to constantly convert the database back and forth when working from home, I'm pretty sure I want to install Access 97 on my home computer. And I do not want to remove AccessXP.

So I'm wondering the best way to go about this. Would it be best if I purchased something like "Partition Magic" and installed Access97 in a newly created partition? (I have no experience doing this but am pretty confident I could do it.) Or can I just install Access97 onto my C: drive? (which is where AccessXP is installed)

One issue that worries me regards the Visual Basic Applications Reference Libraries. Obviously AccessXP has newer versions of these libraries than Access97. Will the two version's of Access and Windows XP be able to keep all these library files seperate?

I will appreciate any advice on these and other issues that I need to be aware.

Thanks,

DarrylQA

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

Many developers successfully maintain multiple versions of Access on a
single computer. Here is a link to an MS KB article on installing Access
97 and 2000 on the same computer - the principles are generally the same for
97 and 2002:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241141

hth,

--
Cheryl Fischer
Law/Sys Associates
Houston, TX

I have Office XP Developer on my home computer which has a Pentium4

running Windows XP Home User operating system. At work, the company
database (to which I will be programming) is in Access 97. Since I don't
want to constantly convert the database back and forth when working from
home, I'm pretty sure I want to install Access 97 on my home computer. And
I do not want to remove AccessXP.

So I'm wondering the best way to go about this. Would it be best if I

purchased something like "Partition Magic" and installed Access97 in a newly
created partition? (I have no experience doing this but am pretty confident
I could do it.) Or can I just install Access97 onto my C: drive? (which is
where AccessXP is installed)

One issue that worries me regards the Visual Basic Applications Reference

Libraries. Obviously AccessXP has newer versions of these libraries than
Access97. Will the two version's of Access and Windows XP be able to keep
all these library files seperate?

 

[DarrylQA]

Thanks Cheryl!

 

[DarrylQA]

Courtesy note to anyone interested in this thread. For reason's not important here, I mistakenly typed the question twice.

I suggest you go to the thread (with the same subject line) in the Access/General Questions group. It is more active and has more information. Sorry for the inconvience but I am new at this.
~DarrylQA