[AccessD] The windows 7 upgrade experience

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Oct 1 09:22:45 CDT 2011


Yes.

On 10/1/2011 8:55 AM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> DO you have that "Installing...." thing whenever you switch from 2003 to
> 2010 of vv?
>
> Rocky
>
>
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> 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
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