ODBC Drivers

[Ray]

Hi All,
My home system was infected with the Blaster virus 3-4
months ago, even though I had my Symantec anti-virus up
and running. When my system started going into the loop
of shut down and reboot, I did a system recovery at a
point 1 week before, went to Microsoft.com, downloaded
the security patch and that appeared to have fixed the
system. Last week, I was trying to install a software
program and I started getting ODBC error messages. I
opened up my ODBC source through the Control Panel and
noticed that all my ODBC connections were gone. I looked
at my Drivers and there is nothing there?
My question is: Do you know of any way that I can
reinstall all the drivers that came with the XP home
edition?

 

[Peter Hutchison]

Hi All,
My home system was infected with the Blaster virus 3-4
months ago, even though I had my Symantec anti-virus up
and running. When my system started going into the loop
of shut down and reboot, I did a system recovery at a
point 1 week before, went to Microsoft.com, downloaded
the security patch and that appeared to have fixed the
system. Last week, I was trying to install a software
program and I started getting ODBC error messages. I
opened up my ODBC source through the Control Panel and
noticed that all my ODBC connections were gone. I looked
at my Drivers and there is nothing there?
My question is: Do you know of any way that I can
reinstall all the drivers that came with the XP home
edition?

Download and install MDAC 2.8 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
to update ODBC stuff.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/

 

[Cindy Winegarden]

In news: (e-mail address removed),

... Last week, I was trying to install a software

Download and install MDAC 2.8 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
to update ODBC stuff.

You may need to download and install MDAC 2.5 to get the ODBC drivers you
need since some of them are no longer included in MDAC (2.8). You should not
have any problems installing version 2.5 alongside version 2.8.