Old MS Access 2000 - what to do?

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I've got an old ballie colleague who works with MS Access for logging repairs of customer equipment and that kind of thing. He's been doing it for years, alone, and has made his own input/template forms in MSAccess - not sure if thats what they're called.

Its Access 2000, and so he's running Win2000 - because you can't run Access2000 on anything above Win2000. He needs a new PC, but I'm not sure what to do with his Access DB as I have little to no experience with Access.

In order to upgrade the poor dude to a PC with Win7, 8 or 10...anyone got any ideas as to make the transition easier?

Is the only way forward to buy a new MS Access? Will it even port across properly?
 
The best way is to get hold of a new pc with access, copy the database and try to import it. If he can do this then at least he will know in a week or two if there are any problems.

Try this and let me know what you think:
https://support.office.com/en-US/Ar...e-format-098ddd31-5f84-4e89-8f44-db0cf7c11acd

Good luck!


Cicero said:
I've got an old ballie colleague who works with MS Access for logging repairs of customer equipment and that kind of thing. He's been doing it for years, alone, and has made his own input/template forms in MSAccess - not sure if thats what they're called.

Its Access 2000, and so he's running Win2000 - because you can't run Access2000 on anything above Win2000. He needs a new PC, but I'm not sure what to do with his Access DB as I have little to no experience with Access.

In order to upgrade the poor dude to a PC with Win7, 8 or 10...anyone got any ideas as to make the transition easier?

Is the only way forward to buy a new MS Access? Will it even port across properly?
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Ok cool, I think the cheapest is to use a VM.

Access these days is really an obscene amount.
 
Ideally he should just port it to one of the many free options available.

Can he not get away with using a newer access runtime version which is free?
 
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