Robert
robert at servicexp.com
Fri Jan 22 10:30:01 CST 2010
Rocky, I have one beta user on a 64 Bit machine. Everything related to Access seems to be working OK. The reason why I say "related to access", is because I have quite a few ActiveX Controls being used, and so far the only one that is giving us problems is a external printer control.. Isn't a P4 64bit?? If so, then you could move to 64 bit, providing the MB manufacture has those drivers available. (and in some cases MS has them and the MFG does not)... Just make a bare metal backup of the drive before you begin... ;-) WBR Robert -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:16 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 7 & Access 2007 (.mde) Caution Warning!!! Different (but related) question - same thread: I'm seeing some resellers on Ebay selling the full version of W7 (not the upgrade) some are 32 bit, some are 64 bit. I'm thinking of upgrading my XP box which is a P4. I need 32 bit, yes? TIA Rocky -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:59 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] Windows 7 & Access 2007 (.mde) Caution Warning!!! Ok, so you may remember in my earlier posts about my observations of the above. I mentions that I had never had a user corrupt a FE. Well, reports started to come in from like 8 of the 11 beta users with the EXACT same error. I spent pretty much all day yesterday, looking through my code, looking for a possible cause. The problem was, I could not create the problem on my 3 test boxes. So I started to look at the differences in the computer systems, and the one discernible difference was the: "Microsoft Office Access Database Engine 2007" Was installed on the effected Windows 7 / Access 2007 machines. The beta testers that did not have that problem, did not have this under installed programs. After un-installing the above along with the Access Runtime (I just did this for caution), then re-installing my program with the Access Runtime. The error appears to be gone. I'm not sure you really need to un-install the Access Runtime Engine, as I did this and re-installed, before realizing the Database Engine thing, and it made no difference in the error, it remained. The problem is, I don't know why / how this Database Engine is getting installed. It's removal doesn't seem to affect any of the office programs.. I'm a little concerned that it will get automatically installed again through updates.... Where does one go to submit this with the MS Access Team, because this seems like a "real hum dinger" of a problem...??? WBR Robert -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com