MSA 97 ... Out of memory

[Alan Searle]

I have recently bought a new laptop (running XP Home) and wanted to
install my old, trusted copy of Office 97. As it was, it seemed to
install OK and Word and Excel worked fine but when I tried to start
Access 97, I got the message "Out of Memory".

I then went on to install Access 03 and that worked fine.

Has anyone had experience of this? Is it maybe because my new laptop
has too much memory for the old version of Access to handle (1Gb)? Or
are there settings in XP that I need to change?

Any tips would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Alan Searle

[Alan Searle]

Alan Searle wrote:

I have recently bought a new laptop (running XP Home) and wanted to
install my old, trusted copy of Office 97. As it was, it seemed to
install OK and Word and Excel worked fine but when I tried to start
Access 97, I got the message "Out of Memory".

I then went on to install Access 03 and that worked fine.

Has anyone had experience of this? Is it maybe because my new laptop
has too much memory for the old version of Access to handle (1Gb)? Or
are there settings in XP that I need to change?

Any tips would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Alan Searle

Sorry for the false alarm: I did some more googling and found that
MS-Access 97 does not work on a machine with more than 1Gb of RAM unless
you have Jet 3.51. Apparently this is described in Knowledge Base
article 161255

Regards,
Alan Searle

[Allen Browne]

From memory, that was fixed in one of the service packs, Alan--either SR1 or
SR2 for Office 97.

You *really* need to make sure SR2 is applied. Otherwise you are likely to
be bitten by the bookmark bug:
http://allenbrowne.com/bug-04.html
amongst other things.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

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Alan Searle wrote:

I have recently bought a new laptop (running XP Home) and wanted to
install my old, trusted copy of Office 97. As it was, it seemed to
install OK and Word and Excel worked fine but when I tried to start
Access 97, I got the message "Out of Memory".

I then went on to install Access 03 and that worked fine.

Has anyone had experience of this? Is it maybe because my new laptop has
too much memory for the old version of Access to handle (1Gb)? Or are
there settings in XP that I need to change?

Any tips would be gratefully received.

Regards,
Alan Searle

Sorry for the false alarm: I did some more googling and found that
MS-Access 97 does not work on a machine with more than 1Gb of RAM unless
you have Jet 3.51. Apparently this is described in Knowledge Base article
161255

Regards,
Alan Searle

[Alan Searle]

Allen Browne wrote:

From memory, that was fixed in one of the service packs, Alan--either SR1 or
SR2 for Office 97.

You *really* need to make sure SR2 is applied. Otherwise you are likely to
be bitten by the bookmark bug:
http://allenbrowne.com/bug-04.html
amongst other things.

Hi Allen,

Thanks for the tip: I applied SR1 and then SR2 and the problem fixed
itself. I didn't update Jet but maybe this was included in one of the
two SR's?

And out of curiosity, do you know how to check which version of Jet I am
running? Can I see this in the settings? Maybe in ODBC?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Alan.

[Allen Browne]

Search your hard disk for msjet35.dll.
I would expect it in windows\system32, but there could be another copy
elsewhere.

When you find it in My Computer, right-click and choose Properties.
On the Version tab, you should see something like:
3.51.623.0

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

"Alan Searle" <aj*******@xxxyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e0**********@newsreader3.netcologne.de...

Allen Browne wrote:

From memory, that was fixed in one of the service packs, Alan--either SR1
or SR2 for Office 97.

You *really* need to make sure SR2 is applied. Otherwise you are likely
to be bitten by the bookmark bug:
http://allenbrowne.com/bug-04.html
amongst other things.

Hi Allen,

Thanks for the tip: I applied SR1 and then SR2 and the problem fixed
itself. I didn't update Jet but maybe this was included in one of the two
SR's?

And out of curiosity, do you know how to check which version of Jet I am
running? Can I see this in the settings? Maybe in ODBC?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Alan.