Security settings for downloaded databases

[kelly_sellers]

I teach Access online, which means I'm constantly downloading databases
from the Internet in order to grade and/or troubleshoot them: 54
database files per week, minimum. I'm running Windows XP, which I THINK
is the source of my having to go in and unblock each downloaded
database before I'm allowed to work with it. Or perhaps there's
something in Access I haven't been able to track down. In either case,
I'm growing weary of being thusly protected from my students' work.

Does anyone know of a setting I can change somewhere so that I can more
efficiently work with downloaded Access files? Or must I resign myself
to always having to take that extra step?

Thank you!
Kelly

[osmethod]

Two things you could try...

1. If Access 2003, change the macro security level to low.
2. On Internet Explorer, add the site you download to your trusted
list of sites - Tools/Internet Options/Security/Trusted Sites - set the
security level here to default...

Hope this helps,

osmethod

[kelly_sellers]

Thank you so much!! I hadn't thought of the Trusted Sites angle.

I'll give it a shot.
os******@eircom.net wrote:

Two things you could try...

1. If Access 2003, change the macro security level to low.
2. On Internet Explorer, add the site you download to your trusted
list of sites - Tools/Internet Options/Security/Trusted Sites - set the
security level here to default...

Hope this helps,

osmethod