[AccessD] Access 2007 / 2003 install shuffle

Yeah, I've never dared to install 2007 alongside 2003; I've always used a
VM.  For the couple of clients I have who use 2007, I originally started out
developing their dbs in 2003 then converting to 2007 on the VM before I sent
them to the client.  I had to send two version to the clients, as they both
have mixed setups - some machines running 2003, others 2007.  The clients
were getting bizarre intermittent errors on the 2007 machines, so after a
while I tried sending them 2003 versions only.  The number of errors didn't
increase, and may even have gone down, so now I don't bother with 2007
versions at all.

Doug Steele


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Would it be even faster in an VM?
>
> Rocky
>
>
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> Subject: [AccessD] Access 2007 / 2003 install shuffle
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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).
>
>
> 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.
>
> 3.0 GHZ Quad core AMD, 16 gig ram, Windows 2003 x64.
>
> I was expecting a couple of minutes.
>
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