My boss and I both have access 97 and access 2003 installed on our
systems.
Lately he has been having a lot of problems. Databases that won't
close. The database looks like it closes but access will not. And
other weird things...I just passed it off as just MS nothing new.
Yesterday I asked him to look at a little project...nothing much of
anything. I put it up on our server and he opened it and went into
design view. Its a form with 1 tab and one subform. It looked like he
was in access 97 design view. Where you have a white box for the
subform with the name of the form in the upper left.. He double
clicked on it and it opened in a new window just like the old 97
version. WTheck...then he closed the database but access refused to
close. After a lot of work in task manager it finally killed it. Well
I went back to my desk and without thinking I opened the database on
the network he had just opened. WOW now I am seeing all the weird
stuff on my system too....things like I have never seen before.
I shutdown rebooted and then opened the file I had copied up to the
server that are now giving me problems....the original one on my
system is fine.
I got an idea and opened a new database and imported all the tables
and forms from the one on the server and it works fine as well..
WHAT does he have on his system that is doing this?
I looked and he has windows xp service pack 2 ....office 2003 with all
service packs and updates. system has antivirus and spybot running.
We are behind a firewall, and I have never seen any problems as far as
malicious hackers on our networks.
Has anyone seen a mess like this and have any idea what can be done to
try and fix this?
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ps he has tons of registered and paid for programs running on his
system.
He is a control and records freak.
Palm phone interfaced into exchange, bluetooth headsets for this and
conferencing and tons of aps for record keeping...nothing hacked or
pirated.
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I would not think this was a problem but I wanted to mention it
THANKS BIG TIME for reading this mess
and hope someone has some ideas