[AccessD] Run ACC03 Demo from CD?

An installation goes to the OS, and whatever drive it's on.  If you
installed software to a CD, the OS would have to read .dll's from that CD,
which would be pretty slow.  And, that CD wouldn't 'work' on another
machine, because that machine's registry wouldn't have the proper settings.
(When you install software, only certain things go where you say you want it
installed.  A lot of things are done in the registry and go automatically
into the Windows/winnt and system32 folder).

Your best option would be to put the application on CD, along with the
runtime installation.  If the people you are demoing it too have Access
2003, then they can just run your demo database.  If they don't have Access,
then they install the runtime first, then run your demo.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Penn White [mailto:ecritt1 at alltel.net] 
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:10 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Run ACC03 Demo from CD?

Does anyone know of a way to put the Access 2003 Runtime on a CD so that a 
demo of an Access 2003 application can be put on the CD and run from the CD 
without installing anything on the user's computer?

The Package Wizard only seems to be able to install the Runtime to the C:\ 
drive.

And then what happens if the user already has a version of Access on their 
computer or even Access 2003?

Thank you,

Penn 

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