What's Wrong?

[pepegot]

I purchased a copy of Office 2003, on Ebay, for less than half the price it normally sells for. I created databases, which work well on my computer. However, when I copy them over to the office computer from my computer, via Flash memory stick, the program does not run. The message seems to indicate a problem with registration. When I installed Access, it asked me for a registration key, which I did provide. After that it worked-not activation process. Does this mean that you can only use the computer you created the database on to run it, or that I do not have a proper version of Access 2003? I cannot transfer, from my home computer, to the office computer. Is this Microsoft paranoia again?
Subsequent uninstalls and reinstalls of the program did not ask for the installation key.
What should happen? I would like to resolve this major problem and your help will be greatly appreciated. The program is flaky. Also, Switchboard does not work-must use Option Box.

These questions most user must know about initial installation and copying mdb files to other computers -please reply.

 

[Robert88]

Hi pepegot,

Have you got the same file system on both operating systems?

Right click the drives (where informartion is contained, home and work) in my computer and select properties, in this dialog box you will find what type of file system is present. If the same then this is not the problem, if different let me know.

Look forward to your response.

Robert88

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The problem can be something more insidious. Search this forum for the topic "References." (Search is 3rd from right on forum menu bar.) It is very possible that you have a missing reference, which is a REGISTRY issue. As you might know, even on two machines that used the same installation kit, it is not only possible but likely that their registries will be different based on what else has been installed and what workgroups have been defined/used for each DB file.