[AccessD] Object or class does not support the set of events

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Oct 1 15:55:58 CDT 2011


I've been running different versions of Access in VirtualBox VMs on my laptop for  a couple of 
years with no problems.  (Intel 2,4GB Core2 Duo, 4GM Ram, , 320GB partitioned into 22 
drives, Vista)

-- 
Stuart

On 1 Oct 2011 at 11:13, jwcolby wrote:

> 
> As for the "why no dedicated virtual machine", well it has to do with
> I run off of a laptop which is supposed to be portable.  VMs, at least
> on my server are... well... on my server.  While I experimented with
> running them on my laptop they tend to be large-ish and take up disk
> space.  Until this point, my laptop disks were not really big enough
> to support virtual machines.  Plus a laptop by its nature does not
> have the most powerful / speedy processor chips.
> 
> The new disk is 500 gigs, which I broke into 100g for the boot and 400
> for the data.  I intend to reassess the reality of VMs nw that I have
> this much storage.
> 
> In the meantime, the billing program is broken.
> 
> I am going to try running it directly in Access 2010 and see if that
> works.  If so it will provide the imputus to make the switch and learn
> the (*&%^%$#$#! toolbar interface.  If it still does not work I will
> remove Office 2010 entirely.  It appears that it has to do with having
> both 2003 and 2010 installed at the same time.  Maybe.
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> 
> On 10/1/2011 10:35 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> > I have no solutions for you. But IIRC, you're the guy with RAM and
> > SSHDs to die for, so why aren't you using all your spiffy hardware
> > and software to create some VMs and do this in-situ, as it were? And
> > further, why don't you have one box dedicated to "meat and
> > potatoes", and everything else located elsewhere?
> >
> > My close friend Peter Simpson has a pretty cool hardware setup which
> > I envy. I cannot describe the HW details but the essence is this. He
> > has five or six boxes and one keyboard and monitor and mouse, and by
> > flicking a switch, he suddenly moves from Box 1 to Box 2 etc. One
> > box runs Win7, another wXP, another Ubuntu, another RedHat, and yet
> > another Solaris.
> >
> > Someday soon I shall waterboard him for all the details on how to
> > set this up, but at the moment it's a total mystery to me. I just
> > watch him press some magic keystrokes and then suddenly he's in
> > another box, and I don't mean VM, I mean another physical box.
> >
> > I feel that I can no longer keep up with the rapidly-changing
> > technology. I think I'm too old for this career-path. China plans to
> > overtake USA in space-launches. Good thing I'm learning Mandarin
> > (and am actually getting pretty adept; well no, let's settle for "I
> > have the basics", and Cantonese is a way tougher nut to crack, but
> > I'm working on it).
> >
> > A.
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