Send Dbase To MS India Tech Support For Debugging

[MBoozer]

Just a quick share with the group. My dbase developed in A2003 on an XP OS and saved in A2000 format works great on A2003. I get a few minor form requery errrors when running on NT with A2000 that I comment out. I had a big probelm this weekend in trying to run it on a laptop with ME OS and Access2000. I installed all the latest SP and Jet Engine Updates. Nothing but problem after problem, MS tech support in India worked with me for about 2 hours to no avail and they were great! Finally they asked me to send them the dbase to see if they can duplicate the error and find a fix. I greatly appreciate MS's willingness to do this, at no charge. However, after much frustration, I simply (%&*##^) upgraded my ME laptop to XP and installed Access 2003. Works great. Lesson learned: Access 2003-2000 dbases can't function on an ME operating system. Or can they? Just thought I would share this with all of the other developers. Thanks.

 

[Larry Linson]

Windows ME is not listed as one of the supported operating systems for
Office 2003. I am surprised that Microsoft Tech Support did not tell you
that as soon as they determined your O/S. But, sometimes, software will
actually work, though it wasn't tested, on an earlier operating system and
perhaps they were as hopeful as you on that issue.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

Just a quick share with the group. My dbase developed in A2003 on an XP OS

and saved in A2000 format works great on A2003. I get a few minor form
requery errrors when running on NT with A2000 that I comment out. I had a
big probelm this weekend in trying to run it on a laptop with ME OS and
Access2000. I installed all the latest SP and Jet Engine Updates. Nothing
but problem after problem, MS tech support in India worked with me for about
2 hours to no avail and they were great! Finally they asked me to send them
the dbase to see if they can duplicate the error and find a fix. I greatly
appreciate MS's willingness to do this, at no charge. However, after much
frustration, I simply (%&*##^) upgraded my ME laptop to XP and installed
Access 2003. Works great. Lesson learned: Access 2003-2000 dbases can't
function on an ME operating system. Or can they? Just thought I would share
this with all of the other developers. Thanks.

 

[MBoozer]

I didn't know that Larry. But even though it was developedin A2003, it was saved as A2000 which does run on ME.

 

[Terry]

You must adjust the references in the A2K database after making changes in the A2K3 database. When running multiple versions of Access - 2K and above - always make the changes in the lowest version. The later versions handle the reference changes; however, A2K cannot handle the reference changes for the later versions and you must make them manually.

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

I have run access 97, access 2000, and access 2002 on a windows ME pc
without any problems at all.

Nothing but problem after problem,

I would have checked your references...as that is the #1 problem you run
into when access works on one pc, but not on another.

For example, if your code has a reference to word, or outlook, and then you
move your code to another pc with A DIFFERENT version of word, or
outlook...then your code will break. (solution is to use late binding in
that case).

So, no, I never had any problems at all running access on a windows ME box.
And, I never had a problem moving code from my developerment pc to a pc
running window ME. It is has always worked well for me.

 

[MBoozer]

Thanks guys. I'll look at the references when I get back to the office. I've got another ME box there and see what I can do. I'm also following up with MS so I can learn more about this matter. Have a good weekend.