[AccessD] The windows 7 upgrade experience

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Oct 1 07:37:07 CDT 2011


I moved my 3 year old Dell M90 laptop to Windows.  I purchased the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive 
(it has an SSD cache) and did a clean install of Windows 7 and started the migration.  So much fun.

I also installed Office 2003 and then Office 2010.  Now, even though 2003 is the default when I 
double click an access database, if I right click in a directory and tell it to create a new 
database, it creates an Access 2010 database.

Does anyone know where that property is stored / changed?

Windows is soooooo much fun.

I have to say I like Windows 7 much better than Vista.  I realize it is really just Vista Service 
Pack 57 but it still just seems to work better.

And I really like the combination of the Seagate XT drive and Windows 7 (clean install).  So far it 
is booting to the logon in just a few seconds and from there to a usable desktop in just a few more 
seconds.  And yea, I know that it may not stay that way after installing / uninstalling a jillion 
things.  But for today it feels like a brand new computer.

jwcolby
Colby Consulting



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