Trying to Open Access 95 in XP Pro

[SmokeEater]

I am trying to open an access 95 database in xp pro but I get the error "The parameter is incorrect".

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[PHV]

I am trying to open an access 95 database
How do you try this ?

 

[SmokeEater]

I recently installed Microsoft XP Professional on my computer. I then installed Access 95 on that machine. I then tried to open an existing database (mdb file) from the desktop, using a shortcut. The "The parameter is incorrect" error appears.

I have let XP create the short cut and there are no parameters specified in the short cut, just the path to the mdb file.

 

[PHV]

What happen if you launch Access95 from the start menu and then choose the .mdb to open from inside access ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SmokeEater]

Solved the problem. Once I added the full path to the application in front of the path to the database everything seems to work as advertised.

C:\MSOffice\Access\MSACCESS.EXE "G:\Database\MyDatabase.mdb"