In the past, I have successfully deployed an Access 2000 runtime application on Windows 2000 and XP. I use Wise Installer System (v9) and a Sagekey script to package and deploy my application. This has worked great until I tried to install and run my project tracking (ProjTrak) application on a Windows 7 machine which has Office 2010 Professional Plus, i.e., the Full version of Access 2010 present.
On the Windows 7 machine, running the setup.exe creates the registry keys, odbc connection, desktop short-cut and copies the application files and Access 2000 runtime files to the expected locations:
Runtime files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\ART
Application: C:\Program Files (x86)\ProjTrak
However, when we attempt to start this app via its desktop short-cut, we get the error message "This application must be installed to run. Please run Setup from the location where you originally installed the application." My guess is this message is referring to the Access 2000 runtime. I have tried setting XP compatibility mode on the MSACCESS.EXE in the ART folder and specifying that it run with Admin privs, but still get the same message. I am stumped and hoping others have seen this and have an answer or suggestions.
On the Windows 7 machine, running the setup.exe creates the registry keys, odbc connection, desktop short-cut and copies the application files and Access 2000 runtime files to the expected locations:
Runtime files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\ART
Application: C:\Program Files (x86)\ProjTrak
However, when we attempt to start this app via its desktop short-cut, we get the error message "This application must be installed to run. Please run Setup from the location where you originally installed the application." My guess is this message is referring to the Access 2000 runtime. I have tried setting XP compatibility mode on the MSACCESS.EXE in the ART folder and specifying that it run with Admin privs, but still get the same message. I am stumped and hoping others have seen this and have an answer or suggestions.