opening acces

[ally]

Hello

XP office Windows XP home Sp2

suddenly i can not open any of my access db. My computer require a
password to open a "session". I am the only user I have a password for
my computer as a whole , tired it but it does not work for access .
I never protected my databanks with a password and up to today had no
problem. Now I can't even open the examples DB
which come with office
I tried repair office : no result uninstall and
reinstall office no result
what on earth is happening ?
any known bug ?
any clue ?

thanks in advance for your help
ally

 

[ally]

OK I did somme more home work and found something about an .mdw
password which has to be changes
could someone help me locate it ??

thank you again
and excuse my panic
ally

 

[Guest]

In Access, go to Tools, Security, Workgroup Administrator. It will show a
path to the existing mdw file. Assuming you don't have any security policies
you want to retain on your local PC, you can just overwrite this mdw by
clicking create and creating a new one over the existing one.

Barry

 

[ally]

brillant ! it works

thanks a lot

ally

In Access, go to Tools, Security, Workgroup Administrator. It will show a
path to the existing mdw file. Assuming you don't have any security policies
you want to retain on your local PC, you can just overwrite this mdw by
clicking create and creating a new one over the existing one.

Barry