Access 97 disabled when Office 2007 installed

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I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed Office 97
(Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my copy of Access
97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it reports "Not Enough
Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for the
limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has anyone
encountered this problem and resolved it?
 
I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed
Office 97 (Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my
copy of Access 97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it
reports "Not Enough Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly
could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for
the limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has
anyone encountered this problem and resolved it?
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There was a bug where Access 97 did not work when you had 1GB or more of
ram. There is an update that fixes it. You probably had the update
before the re-install.
 
Rick,

Thank you for your response. Not sure I understand though. There is an
update for Access 97? I assumed that MS didn't provide support anymore for
the 97 version of Access.

The steps would be:
1. Reinstall Access 97
2. Download/Install the update? I would have to be able to install the
update without opening Access 97 because it won't even start - I just get the
"out of memory" window when I try to launch it.

Can you direct me to the downloadable update location?

Also: If I gigabyte ram would not work with Access 97, why was I able to use
it prior to updating MS office?

Thanks for your help!
Mark Robinson
 
I had Access 97 installed on my computer. When I recently installed Office 97
(Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Outlook) it apparently uninstalled my copy of Access
97! Now when I reinstalled it and try to run it, it reports "Not Enough
Memory". I have 1 gigabyte of ram, so this clearly could not be the case.

I have no need to upgrade my version of Access 97. I works just fine for the
limited use I make of it. I'd like to get it running again. Has anyone
encountered this problem and resolved it?
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I have a vague recollection from many years ago that a particular font
was required to be installed to solve this problem - mine was with an
early version of access (probably Acc97) which I wanted to keep when I
then installed Office 2000. Does this cause any memories to be jogged?

JohnM
 
I remember the font - Hattenschweiler. I'm not sure I remember the exact
problem associated with it.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
 
I remember the font - Hattenschweiler. I'm not sure I remember the
exact problem associated with it.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2009
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County
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That was a clue - the actual problem was that Access97 would not run
reporting 'No license for it on this computer'. Probably a completely
different problem for this thread - sorry cannot help further.

JohnM
 
Thanks for the links Doug.

Any thoughts on why Access 97 worked (with 1 gig RAM) prior to updating MS
Office 2000 to Office 2007 (which did not include Access)?
 
As Rick already suggested, you probably already had the patch applied
previously. Or else you installed Access 97 before the problem occurred.
 
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