How to make my program work on Windows 98?

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Daniel Young - 19 Dec 2003 03:48 GMT

Hi all,

I have a program using ACCESS to store some data. I am selling this program
for months there are no complains. Today a customer told me that the program
does not work properly on his Win98SE machine. It seems that he does not
have the JET driver installed. I used ADO in the program. I took a look at
Microsoft web site, it seems that they dropped the JET from the MDAC
package. My question here is: where I can ask customer to download from
Microsoft? If Microsoft does not provide such a download, what kind of stuff
should I include in my program to make it work?

Thank you in advance,
Daniel

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William Gower - 19 Dec 2003 14:52 GMT

I had the same problem. I have an app that I send out to clients on a CD
that worked great on 2000 and XP, but unfortunately a lot of people
especially home users. I picked up an old Windows 98 machine for $30 on
Ebay and installed 98 on it for testing purposes. I use InstallShield
DevStudio so that helps a bit. It allows me to use merge modules which have
all the dlls in them that I need.

> Hi all,
>
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> Thank you in advance,
> Daniel

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R. Schott - 25 Feb 2004 12:35 GMT

Daniel,

> I have a program using ACCESS to store some data. I am selling this program
> for months there are no complains. Today a customer told me that the program
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> Microsoft? If Microsoft does not provide such a download, what kind of stuff
> should I include in my program to make it work?

Don't laugh: If you let the guy update to IE6 and let him install MDAC
(one of the more recent ones) all should work (until you did not use
some weird XP only system calls).

regards,

-rob

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