A silver-surfer friend has a bespoke database program on his XP Home desktop, said program based on an old version of Access, which was created for him a few years back by someone who is no longer around - and no way to get in touch. The data is continuously being safely backed up, but would be next to useless to him without the bespoke program. Is there a way of moving this Access-based program itself to a new Vista (Home Professional) laptop? He no longer even has the MS Access CD, let alone remember where the Access unlock code happens to be.
In my ignorance, I would guess he could create a complete image of his desktop system, copy it to his new Vista laptop into a separate partition and run it as a dual-boot machine, with the old program running under the (new) XP partition. But that seems complicated to me (and certainly for him) as well as being a somewhat clunky solution.
Could anyone provide some guidance regarding this knotty issue?
In my ignorance, I would guess he could create a complete image of his desktop system, copy it to his new Vista laptop into a separate partition and run it as a dual-boot machine, with the old program running under the (new) XP partition. But that seems complicated to me (and certainly for him) as well as being a somewhat clunky solution.
Could anyone provide some guidance regarding this knotty issue?
