KB912812 causes big problems for Access 2003

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KB912812 caused my MS Access 2003 application to fail. This applciatoin had
been stable for 4 years.

On one XP professional PC I was able to uninstall KB912812, but on another,
it would not allow it to be uninstalled.

When I lauch the MS Access application, I get the error message that it
could not find PLUGIN.OCX. I acknowledge that message. When I try to open a
form, VB editor comes up in debug mode and highlights a statement where I set
a date variable to the system date.

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KB912812 caused my MS Access 2003 application to fail. This applciatoin had
been stable for 4 years.

On one XP professional PC I was able to uninstall KB912812, but on another,
it would not allow it to be uninstalled.

When I lauch the MS Access application, I get the error message that it
could not find PLUGIN.OCX. I acknowledge that message. When I try to open a
form, VB editor comes up in debug mode and highlights a statement where I set
a date variable to the system date.
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Quite a few updates (and other things) cause the well-known References
bug.... but it is fixable! Open any module in design view, or open
the VBA editor by typing Ctrl-G. Select Tools... References from the
menu. One of the .DLL files required by Access will probably be marked
MISSING. Uncheck it, recheck it, close and open Access.

If none are MISSING, check any reference; close and open Access; then
uncheck it again. This will force Access to relink the libraries.


John W. Vinson[MVP]
 
Cowboy said:
KB912812 caused my MS Access 2003 application to fail. This applciatoin had
been stable for 4 years.

On one XP professional PC I was able to uninstall KB912812, but on another,
it would not allow it to be uninstalled.

When I lauch the MS Access application, I get the error message that it
could not find PLUGIN.OCX. I acknowledge that message. When I try to open a
form, VB editor comes up in debug mode and highlights a statement where I set
a date variable to the system date.
Click to expand...
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Hi Mike,
This same problem occured This past week on 3 PC's in our firm,
the Microsoft ActiveX PlugIn reference is checked in Access but the plugin.
ocx was gone from the Windows\System32 directory that Access needed.
I found it in the C:\I386\ directory and copied it to the
System32 directory and then the problem was resolved.
Has anyone else out there encountered this problem and do you
have an idea of the cause? Could it be a product of an automatic Windows XP
update when you shut down your PC.

JohnG
 
John,

That is good info. When I searched for plugin.ocx, it was not anywhere on
my hard drives. I think the cause is windows update KB912812, which could be
automatically installed, depending on if you have windows automatic update
enabled. I disabled automatic update on all but one of my machines, so I can
test the updates before I allow them to be applied across the boarrd. It's
too bad that we cannot trust automatic update not to break our machines.

-Mike
 
JohnG via AccessMonster.com said:
This same problem occured This past week on 3 PC's in our firm,
the Microsoft ActiveX PlugIn reference is checked in Access but the plugin.
ocx was gone from the Windows\System32 directory that Access needed.
I found it in the C:\I386\ directory and copied it to the
System32 directory and then the problem was resolved.
Has anyone else out there encountered this problem and do you
have an idea of the cause? Could it be a product of an automatic Windows XP
update when you shut down your PC.
Click to expand...

Did you really need that ActiveX PlugIn reference in the first place?
Read John Vinson's posting for instructions on removing it completely
and verifying that your app will still function.

Tony
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