Actually, I recently had this problem. I uninstalled one, restarted, ran
norton windoctor, uninstalled the second, restarted, ran norton windoctor.
Then I installed A97 in a folder renamed to Office97 and reinstalled A2K.
Everything runs perfectly now.
Kathleen
::-----Original Message-----
::From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
::Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 11:30 AM
::To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
::Subject: Re: Access 97 and 2000
::
::
::oops, Microsoft strike again :-)
::
::As far as I know there is NO way to get both versions running on the same
::machine (thanks Microsoft).
::
::The error you are getting is a cracker, and you will have fun
::getting rid of
::it! The problem is caused by the fact that Office 2000 does not
::completely
::remove it's self when you uninstall it and your machine is now
::convinced you
::are trying to run the wrong version of the software with the
::wrong licence.
::
::The only way to solve it is to uninstall both versions of office,
::then run a
::utility provided by Microsoft (see the URL's at the end of the email) to
::finish the uninstall for you, then reinstall the version of
::office you want
::to run.
::
::The best way to avoid this problem is not to have ANY version of office on
::the server, just install the latest copy of the MDAC (2.5 I think) which
::will provide read/write access to all versions of Access
::databases (but ONLY
::if they are not replicable) and do all your modifications on
::other machines.
::
::Knowledge base articles
::-----------------------
::Q219423 - OFF2000: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office CD1
::http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q219/4/23.ASP?LN=
::EN-US&SD=g
::n&FR=0
::
::Q247684 - OFF2000: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office CD2
::http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q247/6/84.ASP?LN=
::EN-US&SD=g
::n&FR=0
::
::Q239938 - OFF2000: Utility to Completely Remove Remaining Office CD1 Files
::and Registry Entries
::http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q239/9/38.asp?LN=
EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0
Q247674 - OFF2000: Utility to Completely Remove Remaining Office CD2 Files
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q247/6/74.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0
Hope this little lot helps :)
--
James Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When God created France he found it so perfect that to comfort those who
couldn't live there, he created the French.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Kraybill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: OT: Access 97 and 2000
> What does it take to run both Access 97 and Access 2000 on the same
machine?
>
> We have some small CF db's in Access 97. We have a development machine
with
> Office 2000 and tried to install only the Access portion of Office 97 on
the same
> machine.
>
> When we try to start either version of Access, we now get this message:
>
> "Microsoft Access can't start because there is no license for it on this
machine."
>
> Gene Kraybill
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Gene Kraybill
> LPW & Associates LLC
> www.lpw.net
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