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MS Access Forum / New Users / January 2008Acc 97 runtime and sr-2 patch
Hello, I've installed the 97 runtime, on a second computer. For for my full version of 97 office / Access 97 I had to apply the sr-2 patch. When I try to apply the patch for the runtime, the patch does not find office, so will not upadte the 97 runtime msaccess.exe. There is a version difference between the two. I thought I could always just copy my updated 97 msaccess.exe and replace the runtime, but would I be missing other files which may have been updated or added? I will also need to apply the jet351 patch, does anyone know of similar restrictions or is the jet patch all I need to apply, and not the sr-2 for the runtime? Any help in sorting this out greatly appreciated! Andrey > Hello, > I've installed the 97 runtime, on a second computer. For for my full [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Any help in sorting this out greatly appreciated! > Andrey If you create a runtime installation package on a PC with SR2 applied the resulting runtime will have SR2 applied. Access 97 was unique in this regard (I think) in that it used your regular Office support files to create the runtime so any patching you did to Office was automatically propagated to any runtime packages you create. If you previously created runtime installations without SR2 I expect you would have to create a new version of that setup packeage WITH SR2 and then install that over the other runtime. Also to be considered is that Windows 98 SR2 and newer pretty much destroyed the ability to apply the orginally released copy of the Office SR2 package. Some files that the Office update expects to replace are found to be already updated (by Windows) so the package won't run being fooled into thinking the PC already has Office SR2 on it. I went round and round with MS on this a few years ago and they ended up sending me a new Office 97 disk with SR2 already applied because the separate SR2 update simply could not be made to work.  SignatureRick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com Hello Rick, Thanks for the info it helps confirm what would seem logical, but with the ODE and zillions of related MS files... Just out of interest, any idea as to whether the jet351 update affects only the jet files (dll's, etc) or actually does anything to msaccess.exe, too? Thanks, Andrey > If you create a runtime installation package on a PC with SR2 applied > the resulting runtime will have SR2 applied. Access 97 was unique in [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > up sending me a new Office 97 disk with SR2 already applied because > the separate SR2 update simply could not be made to work. >Just out of interest, any idea as to whether the jet351 update affects >only the jet files (dll's, etc) or actually does anything to >msaccess.exe, too? Only the jet files. See Updated version of Microsoft Jet 3.5 available for download http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172733 Tony SignatureTony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can read the entire thread of messages. Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ >If you create a runtime installation package on a PC with SR2 applied the >resulting runtime will have SR2 applied. Access 97 was unique in this regard (I >think) in that it used your regular Office support files to create the runtime >so any patching you did to Office was automatically propagated to any runtime >packages you create. Yes, A97 was unique in that respect. Although A95 might've been the same I never really used it. A2000 certainly doesn't. Tony SignatureTony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can read the entire thread of messages. Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ |
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