Vista - Access 97 Memory Error

i'm not a computer person so any problem i have, i need help with. right now i have a project to do using microsoft access - i bought the 97 version because i have work on a thumb drive that i need to pull a project off of onto my laptop (running vista) so i installed microsoft access 97 in order to use the project in the correct version. I'm not sure what i need to do to get it to run now. i keep getting message that there is not enough memory to start it. help please advise

Julia,

Did you get Access to install successfully on your computer? Also, are you having the problem when you open this particular database or when you run Access *without* opening the database?

AFAIK Office 97 products are not supposed to work in Vista - see Description of the versions of Office that are supported on Windows Vista

Also, newer versions are backward compatible, AFAICT. For example, see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ac...484061033.aspx

However, Access 2007 cannot save in formats older than Office 2000, but I don't see much of a difference

In order to keep it in Access 97 format you may need to install Office 2003 as that does support Vista.

However, AFAICT, Access formats were pretty close to being the same from 97 through 2003.