Stupid question re: Access 2002

[aussiebeth]

Hi, I know this is a really silly question, but I'm hoping
that someone out there will take pity and answer...I'm
upgrading a PC from Win95 Pro to XP Home Edition. The
computer has Access 2002 on it, and I don't have the
application recovery CDs. Will installing XP screw up the
Access application? I've had this problem before when
upgrading to Win2000 Pro and "losing" WinWord and other
Office applications. Please help--this is for a volunteer
organization! Much appreciated...

[D.Currie]

"aussiebeth" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I know this is a really silly question, but I'm hoping
> that someone out there will take pity and answer...I'm
> upgrading a PC from Win95 Pro to XP Home Edition. The
> computer has Access 2002 on it, and I don't have the
> application recovery CDs. Will installing XP screw up the
> Access application? I've had this problem before when
> upgrading to Win2000 Pro and "losing" WinWord and other
> Office applications. Please help--this is for a volunteer
> organization! Much appreciated...

It's not much of an answer, but it's a definite maybe. I've done upgrades
where applications stayed intact, and others where some applications (and
particularly the MS office suites) needed to be reinstalled after the
upgrade.

But you've said something odd here....you said that the computer has Win95
and Access 2002 and you don't have the application recovery cds. But access
2002 couldn't possibly be on the recovery cds as it wasn't around when 95
was being sold with computers. Maybe you do have an install cd for access
somewhere.

And before you proceed, are you sure the computer will handle XP. That's a
huge step from 95.

And even one more thing to think about. You can't actually do a upgrade from
95 to XP. You'd have to do a clean install. However, 95 can be used as a
qualifying product to verify the upgrade. So you'd have to reinstall the
programs in any case.

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Frankly, I'm rather surprised to hear that Access 2002 would even
work on such an old OS. Anyway, since it is impossible to perform an
in-place upgrade of Win95 to WinXP, I'd have to say, yes, you'll lose
Access. The only way to move from Win95 to WinXP on the same computer
is to format the hard drive and start clean. Naturally, this will
also wipe out any installed applications. How did Access 2002 get on
the Win95 machine in the first place? You had to have had the
installation CD at some point.


Bruce Chambers

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"aussiebeth" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I know this is a really silly question, but I'm hoping
> that someone out there will take pity and answer...I'm
> upgrading a PC from Win95 Pro to XP Home Edition. The
> computer has Access 2002 on it, and I don't have the
> application recovery CDs. Will installing XP screw up the
> Access application? I've had this problem before when
> upgrading to Win2000 Pro and "losing" WinWord and other
> Office applications. Please help--this is for a volunteer
> organization! Much appreciated...