Thanks to a reply by Tony on a different problem I was having with WORD, this
problem was resolved by starting the "DCOM Server Process launcher" in
services, which was not running for some reason.
"Rob McConeghy" wrote:
> MS Access is totally broken on my machine, whenever I attempt to open an
> existing database or just open the bare program I always get the error
> message
>
> "A problem occurred while MS Office Access was communicating with the OLE
> server or ActiveX control"
>
> It is impossible to regain control of Access, whenever we close the message
> box, it just immediately reopens again, and we cannot do anything at all in
> Access
> including closing down the program. We have to kill it in Task manager.
>
> We have tried repairing Office, we have totally uninstalled Office and
> reinstalled it, we have tried running in Safe Mode and we are not using any
> Norton Antivirus or other Norton program.
>
> We have also tried running regsvr32 for old32.dll - no effect on the problem.
>
> I did not have this problem in the past and have been using Access 2003 on
> this machine for over a year. Our in-house Windows Gurus have tried various
> other
> ideas without success. This is the only Office module that I cannot run.
> Excel works fine, Outlook works fine, Word works (although it also gives a
> different mystery error message whenever I open a document, but that does not
> prevent me from using Word OK.
>
> Since the problem is the same even when we open Access with no database, the
> problem has nothing to do with any problem in any database per se, just with
> Access. We don't know what OLE server or Active-X control it is trying to
> communicate with since we have no database open.
>
> The message is the same for any existing database that we try to open, none
> of which make any calls on any external objects in any case.
>
>
> We have tried "repairing
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