Hopefully this is a useful discussion for anyone wanting to run Access 97 on Windows 7 especially if the intention is to also load Office 2007 or 2010 in addition to Access 97. I have successfully installed Access 97 SR-2 starting from the Office 97 Professional CD for SR-1. The level of Windows 7 (64 bit Professional Version) was as installed on a new Dell machine in July 2010. I then loaded Office 2007 as the main office system. As mentioned elsewhere the requirement to also load Access 97 is often dictated by the need to maintain legacy applications which continue to be run very successfully at this level of software under Windows XP or similar. The full procedure and list of problems overcome is as follows:- 1) Make a custom installation of Office 97 into an Office97 folder selecting only Access and its associated data utilities. 2) The error message CTL3D32.DLL not correctly installed – must be installed in the Windows System Directory can be ignored.
Loate Microsoft Office 97 Service Release 2b (SR-2b) Update and click Remove button. Click OK or Yes to continue. Windows Vista and 7 Users. Click Start and. Office 97 Service Release 2 (SR-2). List of Fixed Problems in Office 97 for Windows, SR-2'. What you need to install Office 97 SR-2b. Can I install Office Word 97 on a 64 bit Win 7? Installation of Microsoft Office 97 on Windows 7 64. English Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1).
Should find it is already in the Windows System32 directory. Cota Health Safe Bed Programme Download Matlab 5.3 Software on this page. more. 3) If you now run the SR-2b update (SR2bOF97.EXE) for Office 97 it will fail unless you do the following:- a.
Create two new temporary folders – say folder97 and foldersavefonts b. Copy the windows fonts relating to tahoma and comic (4 files) from windows fonts to foldersavefonts.
Extract the files from SR2bOF97.EXE to folder97 using Winzip or similar. Select the four font files relating to Tahoma and comic and right click to then install these fonts in Windows 7. If you do not do the above the SR-2 install fails because of a version problem with the fonts. Now run SR2bOF97.EXE in the normal way.
It should be successful – if not the situation is different to mine and the log will need to be viewed to troubleshoot the problem g. Finally go to foldersavefonts and install these fonts back into Windows 7. 4) It is now recommended to run the Jet3 patch Jet35sp3.exe which can be downloaded from Microsoft. 5) At this point you should have a fully working Access 97 system. Nokia Navifirm Free Download Dct416s1 there. This procedure should also work for Word, Excel and Powerpoint but not Outlook. 6) Now install Office 2007/10 as required preferably a custom installation into an Office20xx folder. 7) If you have installed Access 20xx there will be a conflict between the Access 97 and 20xx installations.
Both version work fine (ignore the message to rerun setup) once loaded but Access 97 will need to be run with Administration permissions (right click the short cut and click administrator) after running Access 20xx. In a similar way Access 20xx will rerun its registration processes after running Access 97. This situation occurs whenever you move between the versions unless you follow the following steps. 8) Load Access 20xx to ensure that it is registered. 9) Use notepad to create an empty file MSACCESS.SRG – suggest in folder97 10) find the Microsoft supplied MSACCESS.SRG – this is installed in the folder name specified in the custom install of Office 20xx. Rename this file to MSACCESS.SRG.SAV.