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From: Chlaris on 9 Feb 2008 09:21
Dear all,

On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
Administrator" appears with the message:

"An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"

On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title appears:

"Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you run
this application (-1011)."

Please help. Thx.

Chlaris


From: Rick Brandt on 9 Feb 2008 09:34
Chlaris wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
> Administrator" appears with the message:
>
> "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"
>
> On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title
> appears:
> "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
> reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you
> run this application (-1011)."
>
> Please help. Thx.
>
> Chlaris

By default Access 97 placed the default System.MDW file in the Windows\System32
folder. This is a folder that Vista doesn't like you to use unless you run as
administrator. Either install Access 97 as an administrator of manually create
a System.MDW file in a less locked down location and join it using the Workgroup
Administrator tool.


--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com


From: Chlaris on 9 Feb 2008 10:08
Hello Rick,

How to make sure that I run as administrator in Windows Vista ?
Thx.


"Rick Brandt" <rickbrandt2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:yRirj.7734$0o7.3339(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...
> Chlaris wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
>> Administrator" appears with the message:
>>
>> "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"
>>
>> On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title
>> appears:
>> "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
>> reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you
>> run this application (-1011)."
>>
>> Please help. Thx.
>>
>> Chlaris
>
> By default Access 97 placed the default System.MDW file in the
> Windows\System32 folder. This is a folder that Vista doesn't like you to
> use unless you run as administrator. Either install Access 97 as an
> administrator of manually create a System.MDW file in a less locked down
> location and join it using the Workgroup Administrator tool.
>
>
> --
> Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
> Email (as appropriate) to...
> RBrandt at Hunter dot com
>


From: Douglas J. Steele on 9 Feb 2008 10:53
Right-click on msaccess.exe and select Run As Adminstrator.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"Chlaris" <chlarrissa_nospam(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Rick,
>
> How to make sure that I run as administrator in Windows Vista ?
> Thx.
>
>
> "Rick Brandt" <rickbrandt2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:yRirj.7734$0o7.3339(a)newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...
>> Chlaris wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> On completion of the installation, a message box entitled "Workgroup
>>> Administrator" appears with the message:
>>>
>>> "An error has occurred at changing workgroup database"
>>>
>>> On clicking the OK button, another message box with the same title
>>> appears:
>>> "Setup couldn't create a system.mdw file. After setup is complete,
>>> reboot your computer then run the workgroup administrator before you
>>> run this application (-1011)."
>>>
>>> Please help. Thx.
>>>
>>> Chlaris
>>
>> By default Access 97 placed the default System.MDW file in the
>> Windows\System32 folder. This is a folder that Vista doesn't like you to
>> use unless you run as administrator. Either install Access 97 as an
>> administrator of manually create a System.MDW file in a less locked down
>> location and join it using the Workgroup Administrator tool.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
>> Email (as appropriate) to...
>> RBrandt at Hunter dot com
>>
>
>


From: Rick Brandt on 9 Feb 2008 11:23
Douglas J. Steele wrote:
> Right-click on msaccess.exe and select Run As Adminstrator.

Actually in this case he would need to run the Office setup program as
administrator wouldn't he?

Needing to run msaccess.exe as administrator might be required for operational
reasons as well, but if he wants the setup program to be able to create
system.mdw in the System32 folder, then I expect that the setup.exe is what will
need to be run as administrator. Can that even be done to an exe that is on a
CD? If it's not he might need to actually log into his PC with the
Administrator account to do the install.

To the OP...I have run Access 97 runtimes on Vista and tested that, but I have
not tested installing Office 97 on Vista. The installation of the runtime did
not require me to do anything special, but I did so as a Windows user that was
in the Administrators group for the machine.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com





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