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Rob McConeghy
MS Access is totally broken on my machine, whenever I attempt to open an
existing database or just open the bare program I always get the error
message
"A problem occurred while MS Office Access was communicating with the OLE
server or ActiveX control"
It is impossible to regain control of Access, whenever we close the message
box, it just immediately reopens again, and we cannot do anything at all in
Access
including closing down the program. We have to kill it in Task manager.
We have tried repairing Office, we have totally uninstalled Office and
reinstalled it, we have tried running in Safe Mode and we are not using any
Norton Antivirus or other Norton program.
We have also tried running regsvr32 for old32.dll - no effect on the problem.
I did not have this problem in the past and have been using Access 2003 on
this machine for over a year. Our in-house Windows Gurus have tried various
other
ideas without success. This is the only Office module that I cannot run.
Excel works fine, Outlook works fine, Word works (although it also gives a
different mystery error message whenever I open a document, but that does not
prevent me from using Word OK.
Since the problem is the same even when we open Access with no database, the
problem has nothing to do with any problem in any database per se, just with
Access. We don't know what OLE server or Active-X control it is trying to
communicate with since we have no database open.
The message is the same for any existing database that we try to open, none
of which make any calls on any external objects in any case.
We have tried "repairing
existing database or just open the bare program I always get the error
message
"A problem occurred while MS Office Access was communicating with the OLE
server or ActiveX control"
It is impossible to regain control of Access, whenever we close the message
box, it just immediately reopens again, and we cannot do anything at all in
Access
including closing down the program. We have to kill it in Task manager.
We have tried repairing Office, we have totally uninstalled Office and
reinstalled it, we have tried running in Safe Mode and we are not using any
Norton Antivirus or other Norton program.
We have also tried running regsvr32 for old32.dll - no effect on the problem.
I did not have this problem in the past and have been using Access 2003 on
this machine for over a year. Our in-house Windows Gurus have tried various
other
ideas without success. This is the only Office module that I cannot run.
Excel works fine, Outlook works fine, Word works (although it also gives a
different mystery error message whenever I open a document, but that does not
prevent me from using Word OK.
Since the problem is the same even when we open Access with no database, the
problem has nothing to do with any problem in any database per se, just with
Access. We don't know what OLE server or Active-X control it is trying to
communicate with since we have no database open.
The message is the same for any existing database that we try to open, none
of which make any calls on any external objects in any case.
We have tried "repairing