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I was planning on creating an Access 2007 version of the app as well, and make both versions available. &nbsp;Perhaps I would be better to just create and distribute the 2007 version? &nbsp;The users I will be selling to most likely won't even have Access installed on their system, so the potential for runtime version conflicts is pretty small. &nbsp;I might have better success in people running 2007 versions of the app on older systems (XP forward), then the other way around?<br />
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For this app, coversion to Access 2007 would be pretty straight forward.
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No real solution here....other &quot;experts&quot; did not weigh in.
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When putting a database on the web for &quot;Sale&quot;.<br />
The system configuration must be taken into consideration.<br />
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There is no real &quot;Base&quot; setup that will work on every system.<br />
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This is why most &quot;For sale&quot; MS Access Systems are version specific.<br />
Like this:<br />
<a href="http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/BestPractices.html" rel="ugc">http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/BestPractices.html</a><br />
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This is complicated even more when a &quot;Install&quot; program is installed.<br />
An Installation program should be based on &quot;fairly recent&quot; system configurations.<br />
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JeffCoachman<br />
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I have a Microsoft Access 2002 application that I want to sell over the internet. &nbsp;I want to allow people purchasing this app to download the executable and install on their machine. &nbsp;I used the Microsoft Packaging Wizard that came with the XP developer tools to build a package, and then created a self-extracting zip file to download. &nbsp;The download/extraction works just fine, but when I run the setup.exe program in the install package, it is telling me that my system does not have &nbsp;NT4.0 Service Pack 6 installed on my system, and the install stops. &nbsp;I know I can download the NT Service Pack and install it, but I'm not sure that is appropriate for a XP Pro SP3 system. &nbsp;I don't want to break anything else on my machine.<br />
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Anyone know why the install kit is asking for this? &nbsp;Is there a way I can get around this? &nbsp;My eventual end users will probably not have the &quot;savy&quot; to be downloading additional service packs to make this application work on their machine. &nbsp;I really want the process to be simple and foolproof.<br />
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Any help would be appreciated.<br />
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Thanks..Tom<br />

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I have a Microsoft Access 2002 application that I want to sell over the internet.  I want to allow people purchasing this app to download the executable and install on their machine.  I used the Microsoft Packaging Wizard that came with the XP developer tools to build a package, and then created a self-extracting zip file to download.  The download/extraction works just fine, but when I run the setup.exe program in the install package, it is telling me that my system does not have  NT4.0 Service Pack 6 installed on my system, and the install stops.  I know I can download the NT Service Pack and install it, but I'm not sure that is appropriate for a XP Pro SP3 system.  I don't want to break anything else on my machine.

Anyone know why the install kit is asking for this?  Is there a way I can get around this?  My eventual end users will probably not have the "savy" to be downloading additional service packs to make this application work on their machine.  I really want the process to be simple and foolproof.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks..Tom


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