Windows Updates broke my Access App!

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Fred Hebert

I have an access application that I wrote about 4 years ago for my church.
It has been working fine then last wee they suddenly started getting this
warning about "unknown publisher", but you can chose to continue. This is
annoying, but the real problem is that now, only one person can access the
database at a time. Typically there are 3 people who use it off and on all
day, and they just leave it open, but now they can't.

This is a real pain!

Does anyone know what changed and how to fix it?
 
I have an access application that I wrote about 4 years ago for my church.
It has been working fine then last wee they suddenly started getting this
warning about "unknown publisher", but you can chose to continue. This is
annoying, but the real problem is that now, only one person can access the
database at a time. Typically there are 3 people who use it off and on
all
day, and they just leave it open, but now they can't.

This is a real pain!

Does anyone know what changed and how to fix it?
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You should post to an Access newsgroup. Include the version number. Also
what updates were applied? Why did you title the subject Windows Update
broke my Access App? Did you have them remove the updates if you think it
was one of those that caused the problem, using Add/Remove programs and then
do a system restore to before the updates were applied. If that fixes the
problem apply the updates one at a time to see if they can discover which
one caused the problems.

List of MS public newsgroups
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

MS newsgroups on the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx
 
You should post to an Access newsgroup. Include the version number.
Also what updates were applied? Why did you title the subject Windows
Update broke my Access App? Did you have them remove the updates if
you think it was one of those that caused the problem, using
Add/Remove programs and then do a system restore to before the updates
were applied. If that fixes the problem apply the updates one at a
time to see if they can discover which one caused the problems.

List of MS public newsgroups
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

MS newsgroups on the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en- us/default.aspx
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The updates were applied automatically and there were several that were
applied at the same time so I am not exactly sure which one did it. I
am 99.999% sure it was an update because when the problem was first
noticed it was only one PC. Then a second the next day. The third
machine was still working fine, but the have their updates set to
download only but let the user pick when to install. In the middle of
the day she installed the updates and suddenly her PC started
complaining about an unknown publisher too. If it walks like a duck...

As far as other groups, there have been a few suggestions but none have
worked.

Usually if I am unsure of the best group and post the question to 2 or 3
related groups, some idiot complains about cross posting. I understand
cross posting rules, but I feel like they are intended for these people
who post spam to 100 groups, not someone who can decide between the
general group and the programming group... RANT...

Anyhow I posted it here because they have an old Win2K system and it is
the only one working normally so I call this an XP problem. In my
searches I noticed a lot of people complaining about this problem in
Access, Excel, and Word when opening files on network shares. Again
sounds like not a specific application problem, but something in the OS?

My feeling is that it is some change to the XP security settings and
some XP guru would know how to fix it.
 
The updates were applied automatically and there were several that were
applied at the same time so I am not exactly sure which one did it. I
am 99.999% sure it was an update because when the problem was first
noticed it was only one PC. Then a second the next day. The third
machine was still working fine, but the have their updates set to
download only but let the user pick when to install. In the middle of
the day she installed the updates and suddenly her PC started
complaining about an unknown publisher too. If it walks like a duck...

As far as other groups, there have been a few suggestions but none have
worked.

Usually if I am unsure of the best group and post the question to 2 or 3
related groups, some idiot complains about cross posting. I understand
cross posting rules, but I feel like they are intended for these people
who post spam to 100 groups, not someone who can decide between the
general group and the programming group... RANT...

Anyhow I posted it here because they have an old Win2K system and it is
the only one working normally so I call this an XP problem. In my
searches I noticed a lot of people complaining about this problem in
Access, Excel, and Word when opening files on network shares. Again
sounds like not a specific application problem, but something in the OS?

My feeling is that it is some change to the XP security settings and
some XP guru would know how to fix it.
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One should never multipost - posting the same thing to different groups in
different messages. Crossposting to select, applicable groups is ok, that
is posting to all the groups at the same time. Multiposting is a waste of
resources.

So did you remove the updates, either singly checking after each one was
removed, or all together, then doing a system restore to before the updates
were applied? Did the problem resolve itself? Have you checked in the
windowsupdate or office update newsgroups?
 
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