Access conflicts with Windows ME?

Hi,

I purchased a health club management software package
which uses Access as the database. I have been having
error problems that have been arising lately and the
software providers canned response is:

There are lots of problems with Access run in Windows ME.
They are about to tell me to buy a new computer with XP.

Is there any legitamacy to this or are they passing the
buck?
Please help!!
Thanks

I haven't heard about that, but buying a new computer just to get XP is
silly. I would buy XP Pro and install it just to have a more stable O/S
than ME, whether I was using Access or not.

--
Kevin Hill
President
3NF Consulting

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"andrew" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I purchased a health club management software package
which uses Access as the database. I have been having
error problems that have been arising lately and the
software providers canned response is:

There are lots of problems with Access run in Windows ME.
They are about to tell me to buy a new computer with XP.

Is there any legitamacy to this or are they passing the
buck?
Please help!!
Thanks

"andrew" wrote:

I purchased a health club management software package
which uses Access as the database. I have been having
error problems that have been arising lately and the
software providers canned response is:

There are lots of problems with Access run in Windows ME.
They are about to tell me to buy a new computer with XP.

Is there any legitamacy to this or are they passing the
buck?

They are probably passing the buck. What kinds of problems are you
having?

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
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read the entire thread of messages.
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http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm

I agree with Tony.

Is the software actually developed in Access, i.e. is it an Access
application?

It is possible that the software is actually developed in something else,
i.e. VB or C++, Pascal, etc..., and simply use a JET database file to store
data. Since a JET database file uses the same extension MDB and is managed
by JET database enigine (which is the default database engine used by Access
also), Access gets blamed for these problems which haave nothing to do with
Access. This scenario is very common with commercial software packages.

If this is the case, your software providers don't know what they are
talking about ...

--
HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)



"andrew" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I purchased a health club management software package
which uses Access as the database. I have been having
error problems that have been arising lately and the
software providers canned response is:

There are lots of problems with Access run in Windows ME.
They are about to tell me to buy a new computer with XP.

Is there any legitamacy to this or are they passing the
buck?
Please help!!
Thanks