Office installer keeps popping up

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I have an environment where we are running 2000 Server in
a Terminal Services Application Server mode with thin
clients. We use to deploy Access 2000 for a custom
program that was done in VBA and VB. Recently we
switched to just the Run Time version of Access 2000 so
we didn't have to purchase licenses for Access and save
some cash.

What happens now though, is on location, the Run time
version was installed. We decided to purchase a license
for the Office 2000 SR-1 Premium. When we installed it,
no problems. When we launched the custom program which
accessed portions of an Access database, it kept saying
"Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office SR-
1 Premium" and extracting files from the network install.

To say the least it is annoying that this comes up at
several areas where you are extracting information from
the database.

I have done all the office updates and the only common
factor is installing Access Runtime and then installing
Office premium.

I did also use the correct transforms with each product
to ensure that it would install correctly on a TS machine
in app mode.

Thanks!
 
Adam Green said:
I have an environment where we are running 2000 Server in
a Terminal Services Application Server mode with thin
clients. We use to deploy Access 2000 for a custom
program that was done in VBA and VB. Recently we
switched to just the Run Time version of Access 2000 so
we didn't have to purchase licenses for Access and save
some cash.
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As I understand Terminal Services, the only Access application that is
actually running is the one on the server. Why would you be installing a
runtime?
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
We have a runtime version because we actually have a
backoffice piece that is an .mde file which launches the
forms in a graphical nature. If we didn't have the run
time (because normally we don't install Access 2000
anymore on the machines for the clients for cost factors)
you wouldn't be able to launch the .mde file since there
would be nothing to open it.

Hope this helps to disseminate it a little further.

Thanks
 
On the machine that's giving you the problem, try uninstalling office and
running the registry cleaner. Make sure you reboot and delete any folders
which are now longer needed. Now, install only the version you want to run.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
 
I don't understand what you mean -- retail Access will run an MDE
just-fine-thankee. I can understand if you installed the runtime on
the server, to which the users are connected with Windows Terminal
Server, but it sounds as if you installed the runtime on the users'
machines. Could you clarify that? Please clarify here in the
newsgroup, not by e-mail. Thanks.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP
 
We are moving away from retail Access and using ONLY the
runtime version since it is free (Saves a few hundred
dollars per installation). We are in a thin client
environment where there is nothing being installed on the
clients (they are dummy terminals).
 
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