Cannot create new DB or open existing ones

[Matt]

Strange one this.

BACKGROUND
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I have just had to reinstall a laptop after the W2K SP4 upgrade broke the
ODBC import into Access, and it all went horribly wrong.

Have now got W2K SP3 with O2K SP3 installed with those latest patches
applied.

PROBLEM
=======
If logged on as administrator or another domain user, Access works fine.

Logged on as the primary user (who is a domain admin), Access refuses to
create a new DB or open an existing one.

You go through the motions, but when the dialog box disappears, nothing
happens - not even an error.

Thought maybe they were opening hidden, but not so - most of the menus are
still greyed out, confirming nothing is opened.

All other Office apps work fine, and they can open and save documents from
the same directories that Access is failing in, so that eliminates
permissions on the directories.

The user is a domain admin so it shouldn't be a security problem (although I
couldn't say 100%).

I noticed he has pointed his My Documents to his home directory (H, and
everything is stored on the server. This meant when I first logged in as him
on the newly installed laptop, it took about 15 minutes for settings to be
loaded.

I wonder if something got broken during that initial process?

Any ideas?
M

 

[Matt]

Not sure if this is really a fix, but I delete the users profile on the
domain controller and let it be recreated.

Problem solved.

Of course, there may have been a fiddle that was possible that would not
have required nuking him first.

M.

 

[Monte]

Came up with same problem and solution you did, dont know
if its related but I had 2 PC's affected like this and the
common thing between them is that someone had change the
assoc of .bmp files to the image viewer.

-----Original Message-----
Not sure if this is really a fix, but I delete the users profile on the
domain controller and let it be recreated.

Problem solved.

Of course, there may have been a fiddle that was possible that would not
have required nuking him first.

M.

On 8/9/03 3:50 pm, in article
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matthew.lenny@epoch_NO_SpAm_design.co.uk, "Matt"