• Current rating: 0 • • • • • Your rating: not submitted The Borland Database Engine is an user interface of the Firma Borland Inc. To use databases. It offers the access to popular databases as dBase and Paradox. A lot of well known applications are using this program.

May 24, 2018 - Borland Bde 5.2.0.2 Download Rating: 4,0/5 6367reviews. Borland Bde 5.2.0.2 Download. The latest known version of Bdeadmin.exe is 5. Sep 6, 2017 - Process to reinstall or replace the Borland Database Engine (BDE). Remove other versions of BDE. Alternatively, download the BDE32.

The users don't know that they are working with the BDE. But if he tries to run the same application under Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista appears the message 'Error initializing the Borland Database Engine'. In this case it is obvious that not the application is bad but there's no compatible installation of the BDE for Microsoft Windows 8, 7 or Vista present.

With 'Windows Vista' Microsoft presented a lot of changes concerning the file access and rights of users and programs. Per default the initial BDE isn't created for Windows 8, 7 or Vista specific environment conditions. The 'BDE eXpress Manager' - restauration of the original state before install 'BDE Express' - includes 'BDE Express Backup' - an embedded Data backup tool to save and restore Paradox- and dBase data stocks - grants automatical upgrade of the entire data stocks into the Vista compatible format Paradox 7 - offers then Original 'Borland BDE Administration' in Windows 8, 7, Vista compatible mode - support of User Alias names - 'BDE eXpress Windows 8' also includes configuration options for standard aliases and the network access of paradox databases.

I had this problem installing a Delphi 4 Pro application that uses the Borland BDE, as well as installing Delphi itself. It hung up and become unresponsive. I double-clicked on it to abort. I had to uncheck the BDE with a custom install to complete the D4 installation. I found a download of an upgraded BDE install: I used it in my install script and it seemed to work.

But I don't know for sure. BDE was apparently already on my Win10 machine from a previous install.

Perhaps some of the updates made the old version incompatible? The BDE64.rar file is no longer in the dropbox listed above by Fabio M.