Dell laptop with W2K and Office XP Small Business...(does NOT have Access)....and XP has been activitated... I am setting up a P to P for a client who has an Access 97 database on the desktop and wants the lapto access it... I install Access 97 from the Office 97 CD into it's own folder on the laptop... The laptop now has OffXP and Access 97 installed in different folders... When I open Access 97 I get this error message..."Access will not open because there is no license installed on this computer"...I had put the license key in when I installed it... I remove, install it again and same error message... This time I remove Access 97 again and this time I install the entire Office 97 suite, again in it's own folder so it won't conflict with Office XP... Word 97 works, Excell 97 works, Powerpoint 97 works, Access 97 still gets the same error message, and now, Office XP is MISSING...it is gone... I'm stumped...don;t understand this at all... Any ideas??? Thanx Steve

go to microsoft.com and take a look at Article - Q141373, it may help

Nec... That was it...works like a charm!!! Thanx Steve

Good job, Dude!