Opening a database with a shortcut vs. from within Access itself

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Assuming there is only one version of Microsoft Access installed on a
single computer, is there any reason why a database shoud behave
differently when:

a) a user opens a database using a shortcut, versus

b) a user opens a datbase by opening Access first, then selecting and
opening the database file?

A client is seeing different behaviour in a database (some code on a
form is failing in case a), but works fine in case b) ), and I can't
find any reason for the difference. I don't think the particular code
that's failing is the problem -- my prime suspect is differing
permission/privilege levels, but I'm not aware of how these could
differ based only on a) and b) above.

- Jon
 
JD said:
Assuming there is only one version of Microsoft Access installed on a
single computer, is there any reason why a database shoud behave
differently when:

a) a user opens a database using a shortcut, versus

b) a user opens a datbase by opening Access first, then selecting and
opening the database file?

A client is seeing different behaviour in a database (some code on a
form is failing in case a), but works fine in case b) ), and I can't
find any reason for the difference. I don't think the particular code
that's failing is the problem -- my prime suspect is differing
permission/privilege levels, but I'm not aware of how these could
differ based only on a) and b) above.

- Jon
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If the shortcut is to the Access executable and includes some command line
arguments it could act different. It could specify a different workgroup
file for one thing. If it's just a shortcut to the MDB then it should be
the same.
 
You can get different behaviour of short filenames/long filenames.
You can get different defaults for exclusive/shared etc.
You can get different behaviour of the startup process.
You can get different command line parameters
You can get different Windows Version emulation.
You can get different Windows Login users

What behaviour do you see? What is the shortcut?

(david)
 
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