Access 2003, Microsoft Jet 4.0 SP 8 problem

[Russ Ringer]

Can anyone please tell me what is wrong? Whenever I start Access 2003
it tells me that I must install Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 or
later so I downloaded the file and started to install it and then
installer says that I already have a newer version than the one that I
am installing.

Windows XP SP2, Access 2003, all patches from windows update applied.

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

One of the things you can do is to disable the security warnings. If you are
on a closed system and don't open any databases that you haven't created,
there's little danger of getting bit by malicious code. To turn off the
security warnings, Go to Tools ... Macros ... Security and set the warnings
to Low, then accept opening the database and agree to allow "dangerous"
code. Actually, I've never heard of anyone ever having a problem with
"dangerous" or unsigned code in Access. I guess it's possible, but you are
not likely to have a problem unless you open random databases from unknown
sources.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

 

[Tony Toews]

Can anyone please tell me what is wrong? Whenever I start Access 2003
it tells me that I must install Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 or
later so I downloaded the file and started to install it and then
installer says that I already have a newer version than the one that I
am installing.

What is the exact message you are getting?

I suspect the message is actually coming from the Access app you are
running and not from Access itself. In some of my apps I have some
code to check to ensure that the Jet SP is up to date.

What happens when you create a blank database and open it up?

Also one of the MS Windows hot fixes is a newer version of Jet 4.0
than SP 8. Thus the message you are getting from the Jet 4.0 SP 8
installer is correct.

Tony
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[Russ Ringer]

What is the exact message you are getting?

I suspect the message is actually coming from the Access app you are
running and not from Access itself. In some of my apps I have some
code to check to ensure that the Jet SP is up to date.

What happens when you create a blank database and open it up?

Also one of the MS Windows hot fixes is a newer version of Jet 4.0
than SP 8. Thus the message you are getting from the Jet 4.0 SP 8
installer is correct.

Tony

I switched to Administrator instead of Power User, opened Access and
it looked like it was installing something, but it went by too fast.
After that I no longer get the error opening as a Power User.

 

[Tony Toews]

I switched to Administrator instead of Power User, opened Access and
it looked like it was installing something, but it went by too fast.
After that I no longer get the error opening as a Power User.

Ah, interesting. Sounds like it's fixed then.

Thanks for posting back the solution. Always helps should someone
else have a similar problem in the future.

Tony
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