? Vista Patch for Office 97 Pro

Does anyone know if Microsoft is working on a patch or solution to make
Office 97 Pro compatible with Windows Vista. I have installed Office 97 Pro
on a Laptop running Vista Home Premium, however Access doesn't run. Word,
Excel and Powerpoint seem to run okay. Microsoft's 'official' stance is that
Office 97 Pro is no longer supported and it is not currently compatible with
Vista.

No, they do not work on software that is out of mainstream and extended support. There will be no patch.

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After furious head scratching, Access97/2000 asked:

| Does anyone know if Microsoft is working on a patch or solution to
| make Office 97 Pro compatible with Windows Vista. I have installed
| Office 97 Pro on a Laptop running Vista Home Premium, however Access
| doesn't run. Word, Excel and Powerpoint seem to run okay.
| Microsoft's 'official' stance is that Office 97 Pro is no longer
| supported and it is not currently compatible with Vista.

Are you getting an error message or can you expand on the steps you're taking and the user permissions when you say 'doesn't run'?

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<<"Access97/2000" <Access972000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:20517D90-2138-4C34-9772-CFD6EBF7EB93@microsoft.com...
Does anyone know if Microsoft is working on a patch or solution to make
Office 97 Pro compatible with Windows Vista. I have installed Office 97 Pro
on a Laptop running Vista Home Premium, however Access doesn't run. Word,
Excel and Powerpoint seem to run okay. Microsoft's 'official' stance is that
Office 97 Pro is no longer supported and it is not currently compatible with
Vista. <<
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

When I first tried to run Access I received a message that the file
c:/windows/system32/system.mdw was missing. I copied the file from another
computer also using Office 97 and pasted it into the c:/windows/system32/
folder. I then rebooted the computer and tried again to run Access. This
time I received an ‘out of memory’ message, however I had no other programs
running and approximately 1.5 GB of memory available. I tried to uninstall
and reinstall Office 97, however it would not uninstall after several
attempts.

How can I fix the ‘out of memory’ problem and/or otherwise get Access to run.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Are you getting an error message or can you expand on the steps you're taking and the user permissions when you say 'doesn't run'?
>
> ================
> <<"Access97/2000" <Access972000@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:20517D90-2138-4C34-9772-CFD6EBF7EB93@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know if Microsoft is working on a patch or solution to make
> Office 97 Pro compatible with Windows Vista. I have installed Office 97 Pro
> on a Laptop running Vista Home Premium, however Access doesn't run. Word,
> Excel and Powerpoint seem to run okay. Microsoft's 'official' stance is that
> Office 97 Pro is no longer supported and it is not currently compatible with
> Vista. <<
> --
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>
>

[marto74]

HI,
thank You
In fact You did helped me, with the hint to copy workgroup file from other machine .
OUt of memory - it's common when the PC have more than 1 Gb RAM
It Easy to fix - just instal jet engine ver 3.5 (download from microsoft)
NOw it's working here ok