Windows Applications Compatibility with different operating systems

Question

Good day dear members,

I have a good question:

How can I make sure that the window application that I developed in visual studio will be functioning well in different operating systems (i.e. windows 7, vista and XP).

Just a day ago, I developed a program in vista (32 bit operating system), and when I install it in windows 7 (64 bit operating system) and run it, I got the following error:
microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0 provider is not registered

How to avoid such issues in the future?? Is it possible for a window application developed in specific operating system to be usable in all other window operating systems?

Thanks in advance,
Ali