[AccessD] Access 2007 / 2003 install shuffle

I always install each version in it's own directory - just an old habit.

I use the quicklaunch toolbar a lot so I will put a shortcut to the 2003 version (if I use that 
mostly) as well as a shortcut to the 2003 version with the /Decompile switch.  If I ever get to the 
point where I actually use 2007 I will likely put a shortcut to that as well.  The icon is different 
so it would be easy to visually determine the difference.

I don't use Access 2007 at all (yet) so under normal circumstances it would always be at the 2003 
version.  That said, I will be using the 2007 version of Excel for this specific client - this 
machine is in fact a SQL Server created specifically for that client.  I haven't tested whether 
using Excel 2007 will trigger ACCESS 2003 to reinstall itself, though it appears to be an OFFICE 
install so I suspect that it will.

I use Access 2003 a LOT on this machine - ATM it supervises (runs) all of my stored procedures in 
SQL Server.  Eventually I will be rewriting that Access "supervisor" code out in C#.Net.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Hollis, Virginia wrote:
> I run 2003 & 2007 on the same machine. The only thing I don't like it
> always uses 2007 as the default. When I ran 97 & 2003 on the same PC it
> depended on which one you used last.
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> You can't run both Outlooks, you have to choose to uninstall it when you
> add 2007 (I prefer 2007 Outlook).
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> Sometimes when I use 2003 & open something in 2007 it wants to run
> setup. It doesn't take long (sort of), but it gets annoying. This mostly
> seems to happen when I open Word.
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> I used the default location when I installed. I noticed you installed
> 2007 in its own directly.
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> Virginia
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> One of my clients uses 2007 (the database from hell guy) and wants me to
> send stuff to him in 2007 Excel.  So I installed Office 2007 on that
> machine in its own directory.  Office 2003 was already installed.  I
> allowed 2007 to uninstall 2003 Outlook (I don't use outlook anymore
> anyway).
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> So then I do the install shuffle.  It was reasonably fast!  As in 30
> seconds to open 2007 after 2003.  Six seconds to open 2003 after 2007.
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> 3.0 GHZ Quad core AMD, 16 gig ram, Windows 2003 x64.
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> I was expecting a couple of minutes.
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