Removinc and installing A97

[Salad]

Last Friday I decided to reinstall Access97 on my machine. At the time,
I didn't have the ability to save a table as a text file. This occurred
after I had removed A2K. (I might have saved myself some time by simply
re-registering MSText35.Dll) Anyway, I got into installation hell when
I removed Office97 from my computer and reinstalled.

I got the Hatten.TTF no license problem
I got the Htmlmarq.ocx no registration error
I got numerous "Installation failed" errors
I got the can't find VBA6.DLL error
Access would open but doing anything in it would Dr Watson it.
My references pointed to VBA6.DLL and not VBA332 and couldn't change
I installed VB6 to see if that would help
Sometimes the install would go through correctly but Access would fail
Sometimes all Office components would install except Access.

It was a mess. I couldn't believe an MS product couldn't be installed.
If you ever get into Access97 installation hell (maybe not since its
so old) but...I finally went to the source and found a couple of
articles to assist you if you suffer the same fate as I.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;162627
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;254250

[MLH]

I can empathize, Salad. I strongly resist all suggestions
to reinstall any component of ODE because of FEAR!
I have neither the time nor the will and I certainly don't
have the experience to recover quickly from such
dilemmas. Hope you're back up 'n running now.

[PC Datasheet]

As I remember, it is recommended that you install multiple versions of
Access in ascending version order. So if you were installing A97, you first
needed to uninstall later versions, install A97 then reinstall the later
versions in Ascending verision order.

--
PC Datasheet
Your Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications
re******@pcdatasheet.com
www.pcdatasheet.com
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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Last Friday I decided to reinstall Access97 on my machine. At the time, I
didn't have the ability to save a table as a text file. This occurred
after I had removed A2K. (I might have saved myself some time by simply
re-registering MSText35.Dll) Anyway, I got into installation hell when I
removed Office97 from my computer and reinstalled.

I got the Hatten.TTF no license problem
I got the Htmlmarq.ocx no registration error
I got numerous "Installation failed" errors
I got the can't find VBA6.DLL error
Access would open but doing anything in it would Dr Watson it.
My references pointed to VBA6.DLL and not VBA332 and couldn't change
I installed VB6 to see if that would help
Sometimes the install would go through correctly but Access would fail
Sometimes all Office components would install except Access.

It was a mess. I couldn't believe an MS product couldn't be installed. If
you ever get into Access97 installation hell (maybe not since its so old)
but...I finally went to the source and found a couple of articles to
assist you if you suffer the same fate as I.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;162627
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;254250

[Douglas J. Steele]

It really isn't necessary, as long as you install each version into a
different subfolder, and tell Office not to remove the old version.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no e-mails, please!)

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As I remember, it is recommended that you install multiple versions of
Access in ascending version order. So if you were installing A97, you
first needed to uninstall later versions, install A97 then reinstall the
later versions in Ascending verision order.

--
PC Datasheet
Your Resource For Help With Access, Excel And Word Applications
re******@pcdatasheet.com
www.pcdatasheet.com
"Salad" <oi*@vinegar.com> wrote in message
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Last Friday I decided to reinstall Access97 on my machine. At the time,
I didn't have the ability to save a table as a text file. This occurred
after I had removed A2K. (I might have saved myself some time by simply
re-registering MSText35.Dll) Anyway, I got into installation hell when I
removed Office97 from my computer and reinstalled.

I got the Hatten.TTF no license problem
I got the Htmlmarq.ocx no registration error
I got numerous "Installation failed" errors
I got the can't find VBA6.DLL error
Access would open but doing anything in it would Dr Watson it.
My references pointed to VBA6.DLL and not VBA332 and couldn't change
I installed VB6 to see if that would help
Sometimes the install would go through correctly but Access would fail
Sometimes all Office components would install except Access.

It was a mess. I couldn't believe an MS product couldn't be installed.
If you ever get into Access97 installation hell (maybe not since its so
old) but...I finally went to the source and found a couple of articles to
assist you if you suffer the same fate as I.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;162627
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;254250

[Salad]

PC Datasheet wrote:

As I remember, it is recommended that you install multiple versions of
Access in ascending version order. So if you were installing A97, you first
needed to uninstall later versions, install A97 then reinstall the later
versions in Ascending verision order.

My Microsoft-induced installation hell was not caused by this. Others
have suffered my fate because Microsoft wouldn't have provided KB
articles on how to drive a stake thru the heart of an A97 installation
if others hadn't experienced the same problem. In fact, they had a
utility to wipe out A97...as long as the OS wasn't XP. For XP, it was a
tedious, registry-filled chore.