Tony Toews <tt****@telusplanet.net> wrote in
news:6p********************************@4ax.com:
Tim Marshall <TI****@antarctic.flowerpots> wrote:
The only problem I'm having is the problem I had with SP1 as
well. I try to run a pivot table with the form wizard and when
I update it, throught Excel, it kicks me out of Excel. Other
then that Access 97 has worked fine with SP2
I don't mean to hijack the thread, but did either of you folks
have trouble with installing A97 and writing the system.mdw to the
system32 directory in your windows directory?
I was unable to do so and had to create one elsewhere. The PITA
is that I have to open all A97 apps from A97 itself or create a
shortcut specifying the location of the ork group.
This is likely due to you running your system as a regular user.
Which is a good thing. Trouble is many apps want you to run as
an administrator. Which leaves your system more open to
hijacking and malware and such.
And the original design of Access putting user components in
System32 was a bad architecture in the first place. User files (like
a local workgroup file) belong anywhere but in the OS's system
folders, which should be off limits in terms of writability to plain
old users.
And this change in design (locking down the OS directory) was made
in Windows 2000, not in Win2K. NT 4 was less stable than Win2K
precisely because it still allowed user-level write access to the
WINNT folder.
I've heqard second hand some not nice things about win XP SP 2,
though just general stuff, nothing wrt Access 97.
I've seen a few similar comments but much of that seems to be due
to spywere and such installed on the system. Or software which
isn't compatible with XP2.
A number of programs of all different kinds have problems with SP2.
For instance, just today, a user brought her laptop to me to show me
that the Outlook Web Access web page doesn't work for her -- she
can't reply or forward messages. We opened IE on my PC (Win2K) and
logged her on and she had no problems with functionality. Her PC was
Win2K SP2. I suspected popup blocking, but turning that off or
turning it on and allowing their mail server to open popups didn't
fix it.
I'm telling my WinXP clients (just a handful, since I kept most of
them away from it) to hold of on SP2. They are at no security risk
because of this since they are already appropriately firewalled and
secure via non-OS means.
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David W. Fenton
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dfenton at bway dot net
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