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  • julietbrown
    New Member
    • Jan 2010
    • 99
    #1

    Access Developer Extensions / Runtime

    MS website assured me if I downloaded the Dev Extensions I would be able to package up my Access 2007 database to run on a machine without Access installed. I downloaded the stuff, and seemed to have managed to package up the db, choosing the option to download the Runtime thing into the package. This produced a nice little folder on my machine, which I popped onto a memory stick and full of hope copied it onto my laptop (all ready for a user demo!)

    Sadly, when I ran the set-up (which I had actually expected to 'auto-run' but it didn't) I got a message saying "Microsoft Access must be installed ... Installation failed."

    The laptop is an Advent machine, with opsy Windows 2007.

    I'm so fed up. Can you help? (I even went to the MS support site, but backed off when I discovered I'd have to pay £199 for the privilege of consulting them!!)
    Tags: access runtime
    • julietbrown
      New Member
      • Jan 2010
      • 99
      #2
      Please, site admin, HELP! What do I do when I answer my own question? Is my own solution to my own problem of any use to anyone else? Or, if not, how do I un-ask a question!?

      Anyway, I solved the above by downloading the Runtime thing onto the laptop. So, somehow it didn't get there via the Developer Extensions "packaging up" Wizard ... Tho' I most definitely told it to take it along with the package.

      Sorry, sorry, sorry!

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        • nico5038
          Recognized Expert Specialist
          • Nov 2006
          • 3080
          #3
          You´ll have to "confirm" that the runtime is added to the package. It easily goes wrong as you experienced.
          Personally I often use third party installers as they are more userfriendly as the Microsoft way...

          Glad it has been solved, success with your demo :-)

          Nic;o)

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            • julietbrown
              New Member
              • Jan 2010
              • 99
              #4
              The 'Microsoft way' is usually the hardest way to do anything! What do you think of the Help system in Access 2007? Don't you just love it when, after searching for something you get 20 entries in the search result all saying exactly the same thing, and inside half of them it says the same thing too ... but the other half are (slightly) different! Then it asks you whether it has been 'helpful' ... blurgh

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