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This
section will provide you with more
detailed information about
Microsoft Access® Runtime
installation for 2003 and 2007. You should review this
section if you would like more
information on the Runtime
installation, limitations, system
requirements, or if you already
have Microsoft Access® 97, or
earlier version installed on your
computer.
Using
the Runtime
Once the Runtime has been
installed, you do not need to do
anything further in terms of the
installation. A
successful installation of
Microsoft Access® Runtime will
not create any menu icons in your
Start/Menu program menu.
Since this is a Runtime
environment, you will not be able
to run MS Access as a stand-alone
program. The Runtime is
simply used to run a
qualified Microsoft Access®
application, such as Service Estimator Pro.
The Runtime installation creates
registry entries in your
computer's Windows environment
which tells your computer how to
run the MS Access application
files which have the extension of
"MDE, MDA or MDB".
This is called "program
association". If you
have not installed the Runtime
prior to installing Service Estimator Pro
and do not have the
full version of Microsoft Access®
installed on your computer, then
you will not be able to run the Service Estimator Pro
program. Your
computer will return an error
message informing you that it does
not know how to run the program
file "SEP.mdb".
Using
MS Access Runtime 2003 concurrent
with MS Access 97
If
you would like to install the
Microsoft Access® Runtime 2003 on
a computer which already has an
older, version of Microsoft Access®
installed (such as Microsoft
Access® 97), you will need to
install the Microsoft Access®
Runtime 2003 and then re-point the
Service Estimator Pro application to override
the older version. If you do
not make the following changes,
your computer will try to run the Service Estimator Pro
application using the
older Microsoft Access version and
fail since Service Estimator Pro will not run on a Microsoft Access®
release prior to version 2003.
The following steps are required
to correctly configure this
re-pointing:
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Using your
computer mouse, click on the
system "Start"
button at the bottom of your
windows desktop screen, then
click on "Programs".
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Inside the
Programs list, look for
"Service Estimator Pro", then
click on that line
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Highlight
"Service Estimator Pro" and
then right click that line
with your mouse to show a list
where you should see
"Properties"
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Click on
the "Properties"
line 5. Now you will see a box
with General and Shortcut tabs
on the top of the box. Click
on the Shortcut tab and you
will see a field called
"Target"
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Replace the
contents of current target
with the following command
line using your computer's cut
and paste features:
"C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
Office\ART\Office11\MSACCESS.EXE"
/excl /runtime
"C:\Program Files\Service
Estimator\SEP.mdb"
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Save
the new command line by
clicking on the "Ok"
button in the properties box
for the Service Estimator Pro application.
MS
Access System Requirements
Computer/Processor
The recommended system
configuration for Microsoft Access®,
Windows version, is a computer
with a Pentium III processor and
512MB of RAM. Pentium 200 MHz or
higher processor required.
Memory
RAM requirements for Microsoft
Access® depend upon the operating
system used, plus an additional 8
MB of RAM for each Office
application running
simultaneously: for Windows 98 and
Windows 98 Second Edition, 24 MB
of RAM for the operating system; for Windows
Server 2003 or XP Pro, 64
MB of RAM for the operating
system.
Hard Disk
Hard-disk space requirements will
vary depending on configuration.
170 MB of available hard-disk
space is required for the default
configuration of Microsoft
Access® with 115 MB on the hard
disk where the operating system is
installed. The Service Estimator
Pro application is relatively
small. With all components
considered, it only takes up a
maximum of 80MB of hard-disk
space.
Drive
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Display
Super VGA (800x600) or
higher-resolution monitor with 256
colors.
Operating System
Windows Server 2003,
XP Pro or Windows 7.
Peripherals
Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft
IntelliMouse, or compatible
pointing device.
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