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bpanders71
I just recently purchased a new XP Pro SP2 machine for a user. She was
switching over from a one year old Win2k SP4 machine. To ease the
transition, I gave her a roaming profile, then hooked up the new
machine and she logged on fine. She is an administrator on the local
machine only, and on the old win2k machine was an authenticated user as
a member of the local administrators group. All seems well except for
Access 2000. When she tries to open a file, either from a shortcut, or
by opening Access and then going to File > Open, Access just sits
there. This is a password protected database, so I expect to see the
prompt for the password but do not.
When she logs on to a Win2k terminal server, she can open the database
just fine. For what it's worth, she cannot open any access db file I
try to open on the XP machine. I've uninstalled the access component
from Office 2000 and reinstalled all access components but no luck. I
uninstalled the entire office 2000 suite and reinstalled and still
cannot open any database. Access opens fine, just not a database. If
I log on as a domain administrator, I can open the file no problem (of
course).
If she logs on to another fairly recent XP Pro SP2 machine, she can
open the file fine, and on that machine she is not an administrator.
Interestingly enough if I go into Administrative tools in Control
Panel, I see no icons. I can open event viewer from the command line,
but don't see anything unusual. I ran a sfc /scannow and the scan did
appear to need my XP install cd three times (on a two day old
installation??). All antivirus is up to date and was the first thing
installed on this machine so there are no problems there. All Office
updates were done from online update, all windows updates are current
on both XP machines I've tried with the exception this particular users
machine is having problems with a Flash update for whatever reason.
What am I missing? I'm about ready to bang my head against the wall!
Thanks for any leads-
Brian
switching over from a one year old Win2k SP4 machine. To ease the
transition, I gave her a roaming profile, then hooked up the new
machine and she logged on fine. She is an administrator on the local
machine only, and on the old win2k machine was an authenticated user as
a member of the local administrators group. All seems well except for
Access 2000. When she tries to open a file, either from a shortcut, or
by opening Access and then going to File > Open, Access just sits
there. This is a password protected database, so I expect to see the
prompt for the password but do not.
When she logs on to a Win2k terminal server, she can open the database
just fine. For what it's worth, she cannot open any access db file I
try to open on the XP machine. I've uninstalled the access component
from Office 2000 and reinstalled all access components but no luck. I
uninstalled the entire office 2000 suite and reinstalled and still
cannot open any database. Access opens fine, just not a database. If
I log on as a domain administrator, I can open the file no problem (of
course).
If she logs on to another fairly recent XP Pro SP2 machine, she can
open the file fine, and on that machine she is not an administrator.
Interestingly enough if I go into Administrative tools in Control
Panel, I see no icons. I can open event viewer from the command line,
but don't see anything unusual. I ran a sfc /scannow and the scan did
appear to need my XP install cd three times (on a two day old
installation??). All antivirus is up to date and was the first thing
installed on this machine so there are no problems there. All Office
updates were done from online update, all windows updates are current
on both XP machines I've tried with the exception this particular users
machine is having problems with a Flash update for whatever reason.
What am I missing? I'm about ready to bang my head against the wall!
Thanks for any leads-
Brian