What does this message mean?

[atadbitslow]

I just re-installed my legal copy of Office 97 on my new machine and received this message when I tried to start Access-- "Microsoft Access can't start because there is no license for it on this machine." This happens when I click on the msaccess.exe file and a .mdb file. The install went through w/o any problems (once I turned Norton off).

Now perhaps I should mention I had recently installed Office 2000 -legal copy--. I thought that might be the problem so I uninstalled Office 2000, uninstalled Office 97 and re-booted and then re-installed Office 97 and I still get the message.

Does anybody have any ideas??

Thanks!

 

[atadbitslow]

I found the answer on Microsoft's web page--I had to download a file that rebuilds your license--works fine now!

 

[JrClown]

Microsoft will not allow you to step down from an Office 2000 to 97
Do a search for "No Access Key" at the microsoft site and you'll find the solution. I did
I thought I bookmarked the site but did not, sry. "The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another"
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[Ahmed66]

It may be worth mentioning here that Microsoft Licensing procedure is changing to a single licence intallation per machine! Reinstalling MS software will become more problematic than usual! A Cheering thought
Apart from that JRClown's reponce is valid MS does not allow users to downgrade their softwrae installtion

Cheers

Ahmed

 

[atadbitslow]

I don't know if you read my reply above, but MS has a file you can download to fix the license--it worked for me, so I did downgrade with only that little hitch.

Thanks for your input.