Help! My computer not liscensed?!?!?!

The deal is that what you are trying to do is a violation of the laws in nearly every single country in the world.

To "help" you violate these laws would be a blatant violation of a particularly strict law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

So your request is to ask this site to host something illegal and to ask people to break the law while helping you to break the law.

Please don't do this. Those DMCA lawyers are means SOBs.

The DMCA means merely telling you how to violate the copyrights is illegal.

I'm sorry. I guess I thought that since the other computer had died and I wasn't using the software on that computer I could use it on an alternative computer.

I guess that is incorrect?

Have you tried registering the the program with ms? If you can't do that, maybe you could contact them with the problem, though finding out how you go about contacting them might be a bit time consuming.

Unfortunately so. When you buy software from Micro$oft with your hard earned money, guess what? It doesn't belong to you! It still belongs to Billy boy.

...Which is the norm for commercial software, of course (licensing, as opposed to actually transferring ownership).



Imdtckdkr, Microsoft's free Access snapshot viewer won't suffice for your needs, right? ( http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010449811033 )

Monger,
Thanks for the link. It helps to at least be able to view our database but I need to be able to add new customers as well.

I guess I'll just have to be behind until we get the money to fix the office computer. Because I definately don't want to do something that would cause me to get in trouble. Don't need to be dealing with that as well!!! LOL

You're welcome.


Smart move.

GET GOTOMYPC SOFTWARE
go to GOTOMYPC.COM and sign up-thats the cheapest thing to do to acess company files from home.......thats my suggestion-good luck..........

If you're going to go with a remote access solution (which takes control of another computer), GoToMyPC with their recurring $20 monthly charge is one of the more expensive options.....by no means the cheapest.

Windows XP Pro has remote access software already built in.

Other good options include Famatech's Remote Administrator - www.radmin.com - which costs $35 (for the price, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more secure remote-access program), and Symantec's pcAnywhere - www.symantec.com/pcanywhere/Consumer - which goes for $200.

If you're doing remote access within a LAN, VNC - www.realvnc.com - is excellent, by far the most widely used, & best of all free.

I have not used it for working with access files but you might want to try http://www.openoffice.org/ to see if that will allow you to work with your database.


You might also want to look into switching to mysql for your database. As long as your work computer has a constant internet connection it's easy to write a front-end to the database with PHP so you can access and edit your database from any web browser. And best of all it is free.

http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html

If I lived near you I would do it for a twelve pack. Since I don't you might look into putting up a few ads at any colleges near you. It would take less then a day if you know what you are doing. You might be able to get it done for fifty bucks. Just a thought..