Stupid question re: Access 2002

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aussiebeth

Hi, I know this is a really silly question, but I'm hoping
that someone out there will take pity and answer...I'm
upgrading a PC from Win95 Pro to XP Home Edition. The
computer has Access 2002 on it, and I don't have the
application recovery CDs. Will installing XP screw up the
Access application? I've had this problem before when
upgrading to Win2000 Pro and "losing" WinWord and other
Office applications. Please help--this is for a volunteer
organization! Much appreciated...
 
aussiebeth said:
Hi, I know this is a really silly question, but I'm hoping
that someone out there will take pity and answer...I'm
upgrading a PC from Win95 Pro to XP Home Edition. The
computer has Access 2002 on it, and I don't have the
application recovery CDs. Will installing XP screw up the
Access application? I've had this problem before when
upgrading to Win2000 Pro and "losing" WinWord and other
Office applications. Please help--this is for a volunteer
organization! Much appreciated...
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It's not much of an answer, but it's a definite maybe. I've done upgrades
where applications stayed intact, and others where some applications (and
particularly the MS office suites) needed to be reinstalled after the
upgrade.

But you've said something odd here....you said that the computer has Win95
and Access 2002 and you don't have the application recovery cds. But access
2002 couldn't possibly be on the recovery cds as it wasn't around when 95
was being sold with computers. Maybe you do have an install cd for access
somewhere.

And before you proceed, are you sure the computer will handle XP. That's a
huge step from 95.

And even one more thing to think about. You can't actually do a upgrade from
95 to XP. You'd have to do a clean install. However, 95 can be used as a
qualifying product to verify the upgrade. So you'd have to reinstall the
programs in any case.
 
Greetings --

Frankly, I'm rather surprised to hear that Access 2002 would even
work on such an old OS. Anyway, since it is impossible to perform an
in-place upgrade of Win95 to WinXP, I'd have to say, yes, you'll lose
Access. The only way to move from Win95 to WinXP on the same computer
is to format the hard drive and start clean. Naturally, this will
also wipe out any installed applications. How did Access 2002 get on
the Win95 machine in the first place? You had to have had the
installation CD at some point.


Bruce Chambers

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Aussiebeth said:
Thanks to those that responded to my post. I'm also
surprised that this machine (running Win95) can cope with
Access 2002, but it seems to be ok so far. The guy that
generously donated Access and set up the dB seems to have
taken the application disks with him, though, and is no
longer involved with the volunteer agency, so it's going
to be fun trying to get the application reinstalled if it
falls apart when I upgrade. Good point about Win95 -> XP
upgrade, too--I didn't know about that little nuance. The
reason I'm trying to upgrade this thing anyway is that the
PC is in a peer-to-peer relationship with another donated
PC that is running XP, and we're having trouble with files
(particularly Word docs) written on one coming up as
garbage on the other, which I know is a problem (or is
that a feature?) with XP and virtually all other Win OS.
Anyway, thanks for the help and info...wish me luck!
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In that case you're upgrading for the wrong reason. If you can't read word
docs from one machine to the other, it's not a function of the operating
system, it's a function of the programs you are using to write and read the
files.
 
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