Damaged ODBC Drivers

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Ken Gash

I have received error messages stating that my ODBC drivers may be
damaged. I am running WIN XP Home, SP2 on a brand new machine, and the
instructions I have found to fix this problem involves uninstalling SP2
and reinstalling it. This seems like a rather severe solution,
especially when the computer I have did not come with diske, merely a
system restore process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Ken Gash said:
I have received error messages stating that my ODBC drivers may be
damaged. I am running WIN XP Home, SP2 on a brand new machine, and the
instructions I have found to fix this problem involves uninstalling SP2
and reinstalling it. This seems like a rather severe solution,
especially when the computer I have did not come with diske, merely a
system restore process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What is the exact error message?
Try upgrading the mdac as noted here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...e3-c795-4b7d-b037-185d0506396c&DisplayLang=en
 
Ken said:
I have received error messages stating that my ODBC drivers may be
damaged. I am running WIN XP Home, SP2 on a brand new machine, and
the instructions I have found to fix this problem involves
uninstalling SP2
and reinstalling it. This seems like a rather severe solution,
especially when the computer I have did not come with diske, merely a
system restore process.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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When are you getting the error message? What is the exact text? Are you
running a particular program when you get the message? And where did
you find the instructions saying to uninstall SP2?

Malke
 
When are you getting the error message? What is the exact text? Are you
running a particular program when you get the message? And where did
you find the instructions saying to uninstall SP2?

Malke
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Got the error message when installing MS Office XP, and again later when
I tried to run Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. The Adobe support site is
where the instructions for uninstalling SP2 were given.
As it turns out, I found the cause and solution to the problem. The
cause is Corel Word Perfect 10 Office Suite. I installed it, then
uninstalled it. This caused the ODBC registry entried to be deleted and
replaced with useless ones. The solution was to copy the registry
entries from a "good" system and update the registry. This worked
great. There is also another solution on the Corel support site:
run odbcconf /f odbcconf.rsp from ..Windows\system32.
Thanks for your response.
 
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