Install & use Access Runtime 2007 in windows 8.0 environment

Question

I downloaded Runtime 2007 and clicked the .exe file. It installed without giving a clue where.  Can anyone suggest which directory might contain it and what name it is under.

Answer 1

C:\My Documents\Access Developer Extensions\AccessRuntime.exe

Answer 2

Access Runtime 32 bit 2007 installs in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12
64-bit:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

Office 2007 = Office 12
Office 2010 = Office 14
Office 2013 = Office 15
Office 2016 = Office 16 (finally in sync :)

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Best regards, George

Answer 3

George has provided the correct path names for given versions. Note that you cannot "launch" the msaccess runtime on its own. You must open a database. So you can achieve this by either double clicking on a accDB/accDE etc., or use a shortcut to msaccess.exe and supply the path name to the accDB file in that shortcut.

eg:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSACCESS.EXE" "c:\MyProg\test.accde" 

So as a heads up if you just launch the msaccess.exe without any database specified, the runtime will then simply shutdown (so you can't launch the runtime without a corresponding database).

Regards,

Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)

Edmonton, Alberta Canada