jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Oct 27 09:55:16 CDT 2009
There are advantages to a VM, but in this specific case I need Excel 2007 available at all times. This machine is a SQL Server that I built specifically for this client who uses 2007. He uses Excel 2007, and loves it mostly because of the large spreadsheets it can create. Or something. At any rate, I need to be able to generate native 2007 spreadsheets for him. OTOH I also use Access 2003 to supervise some complex BCP output / input processes, processes which take as many as 5-10 stored procedures to accomplish (each way). So I use Access even more than I use Excel. I will NOT be going to Access 2007 for this stuff, it is just too confusing. So it is Access 2003 and Excel 2007. Sigh. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Rocky Smolin wrote: > Would it be even faster in an VM? > > Rocky > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:59 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] Access 2007 / 2003 install shuffle > > 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. > > -- > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >