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Don’t know whether this is appropriate for your situation, but we discovered — in a similar sounding situation — that once you started Adobe Reader “standalone” with their installed icon and accepted the licensing stuff, Acrobat would open as intended.

IOW you need to agree to their licensing terms first.

Don’t know whether this is appropriate for your situation, but we discovered — in a similar sounding situation — that once you started Adobe Reader “standalone” with their installed icon and accepted the licensing stuff, Acrobat would open as intended.

IOW you need to agree to their licensing terms first.

In our situation the “acceptable” performance was relative to running the front end on the remote laptop linked via WAN to the “home” server back end. This was totally unacceptable, as others have stated.
Using remote access software (pcAnywhere) to run front end and backend “under the home roof” was at least useable for our purposes. It was considerably slower than running the app “at home” over the LAN because screen refreshes and keystrokes were being transmitted back and forth between the remote and host via modem over a pots line.
It got the job done for us, but may in fact not be acceptable to a paying client unless he had experienced trying to link to a back end via pots from a local front end.
I apologize if my comments have confused your approach, but was relating our experience in what seemed to be a similar situation.

Why are you going to the Control Panel to Add a printer with the “Add Hardware” function?
Kaplinb explained specifically — that is not how to add printers.

We’ve run it successfully through 56k modems which obviously don’t perform at that speed due to the variables in available pots lines.

We’ve tried several approaches to this situation. The best went as follows:

Split database app with frontend on however many workstations linked to the backend on a server on the lan

Remote user links via dialup (via pcAnywhere) to one of the lan workstations (which also has pcAnywhere) and runs the frontend on that station via remote control.

Advantages: All processing takes place “in house” on the lan. The only things transmitted back and forth via dialup between the lan and remote user are keystrokes and screen refreshes.

Dave & Hans:

Thanks much to you both

OS Win2k.
Have used Norton Speed disk for years and was “happy” with it. Then last year got a copy of Diskeeper lite and decided to do a “test”.

Ran Speed disk until it was happy and showed no fragmentation. Then I ran Diskeeper. After running the “analysis” stage received the report that the drive was “severely fragmented”, so ran DKLite until IT was happy. Then tried Norton Speed disk again and it said everything was fine … no defrag needed.

I suspect that the various defrag suppliers use their own proprietary algorithms in their programs and each feels that theirs is “best”. For me the bottom line is that my various PCs seem to run “better and faster” after defragging — no matter whose program I run. Things load faster and seem to respond more quickly to instructions.

How about building the report/chart from a query using aliases. That way if the actual field name is “wheat3” and you want the caption to be “Grapenuts” you use the Grapenuts: wheat3 syntax in the query grid (or is it [wheat3]?)

The clue?

In the states there used to be (and may still be) a pudding mix named “My-T-Fine”, which could be what she was referring to …

While agreeing with jkipk that a reformat, etc, is the “ideal” way to install a new Office version, MS has a utility — Eraser2k — which supposedly removes all vestiges of Office 2000 from your pc AFTER you do a control panel uninstall via “Add/Remove Software”

It’s worked well for me.

I’ve given up on any recommended MS updates … simply because I don’t have the time or inclination to do the necessary research and checking on each “critical” update that rears its ugly head.

I feel that my work pc is the agency’s responsibility. My own home pc is virus protected, has Zone Alarm Pro, Ad Aware, and SpyBot S&D. All are carefully upgraded with THEIR current definitions, etc. Any critical data is backed up to an external Kanguru 60 GB USB Hard Drive.

Maybe I’m going to get bitten with my head in the sand, but I’m NOT a full-time security consultant or update de######. So … I’ll scrub the C: drive and start over with the operating system and reinstall the programs if necessary. It hasn’t been “broke” for quite a while, so I’m not “fixing it” until it does get broken.

Guess the point of this rant is that I have zero faith in Microsoft to know what they’re doing with updates, so I’m just opting out.

Try what’s outlined in the attached QD sample

Catherine:

DB3 PROBABLY refers to dBase III, which was developed by Ashton-Tate many years ago. It was/is an Xbase database and was followed by dBase IV, etc, etc.

Access will read dBase III files more or less successfullyy, although I’ve had to open them first in Excel, then import them into Access on occasion.

I’m sure there are a bunch more of the database “oldtimerrs” that can give you more info if you need it, but trying to do further development in dBase III would be an exercise in futility.

This may be a couple of days late, but I felt I should pass on a very positive experience I’ve just had with IMC, who manufacture and sell Kanguru external hard drives. They’re a US company based in Millis, MA — just outside of Boston.

I bought a 40GB Kanguru external 3.5″ drive with a USB2 cable (backwards compatible with USB1) from them last October after having fought with Syquest, then Orb for several years. It has been working without a hitch. Wednesday morning I attached it to my work pc and it wouldn’t spin up — just sat there blinking at me.

I called their service number, got an intelligent real service person named Nick who had me try a couple of things which didn’t work. He said to send it back to them, so I sent it out UPS 2nd day air. Today I got an email from Nick letting me know that they had received it and went through their testing procedures with me. The upshot is that both the power supply and the USB cable were bad. They have replaced both and have shipped it back to me.

My total cost? … about $30.00.

What a treat!! They have good stuff, they stand behind it, and they seem to care! I feel that this level of service and competence deserves this “positive rant”.