Obviously, doing so risks having our application not working, along with any other that uses MADE. Double-click the AccessDatabaseEngine. To install this download: Download the file by clicking the Download button and saving the file to your hard disk. If there is a 32-bit version of MADE already installed (without MS Office on the computer) then I do not want to install the 64-bit MADE. Note: Before installing this download, you must first remove any previous versions of the Access Database Engine from your computer by using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. My goal is to be able to run a check on the MADE (32 or 64-bit) to see if it is possible for the installation to continue. How can we determine what version of MADE that may already exist on their computer? Can we tell if it is 32-bit or 64-bit? I have done quite a bit of searching to see if I can find a way to determine which version of MADE is already installed, but have been unsuccessful to this point. Both 32 and 64-bit versions of MADE are now installed on the computer.In this scenario, a user could first install the 32-bit version of our application, uninstall and then install the 64-bit version. Access Database Engine Redistributable 2010. An issue arises when the user does not have MS Office installed. If a user uninstalls our application, the MADE is left untouched and remains on the user's computer. As a result, you actually dont need (or even want) to install the whole big run-time to JUST get use of the ACE database engine. Note: Before installing this download, you must first remove any previous versions of the Access Database Engine from your computer by using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. What this means is that now when you install the Access 2016 runtime, it does not expose an instance of the ACE database engine. The MADE install runs silently in the background. Well all of office now typical runs as a virtualized application. Depending on the version of MS Office installed, we then install the appropriate MADE (Microsoft Access Database Engine) version. We develop an application that installs on 32 and 64-bit machines.