Customized standard menus and toolbars have been reset!

[a]

Hi,

I am an Access developer. To make things a lot easier, I use a lot of extra
buttons on the standard menus.
A lot of these buttons are linked to public functions I wrote to automate
some time-consuming actions.
Now today when I started Access, all my extra buttons and menus were gone!
I can only see the standard Access menubars with the standard items.
I can still see the added toolbars I am using in the application I am
developing, but everything I changed in the standard toolbar is gone!
The database I am working on is Ok. There are no indications that there is
something wrong with it.
Also other databases look normally.
I didn't change anything on my PC since the last time it was still working.
I hope somebody knows how to restore/repare my toolbars without recreating
all the changes I made.
If there is no way to restore the toolbars, then perhaps sombody can tell me
where Access stores these changes.
Then I can make a backup of the changes and restore them when this happens
again...
I am using Access 97 with Windows 98. Upgrading Access or Windows is not an
option!

Any help is appreciated!

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi,

I am an Access developer. To make things a lot easier, I use a lot of
extra buttons on the standard menus.
A lot of these buttons are linked to public functions I wrote to
automate some time-consuming actions.
Now today when I started Access, all my extra buttons and menus were
gone! I can only see the standard Access menubars with the standard
items.
I can still see the added toolbars I am using in the application I am
developing, but everything I changed in the standard toolbar is gone!
The database I am working on is Ok. There are no indications that
there is something wrong with it.
Also other databases look normally.
I didn't change anything on my PC since the last time it was still
working. I hope somebody knows how to restore/repare my toolbars
without recreating all the changes I made.
If there is no way to restore the toolbars, then perhaps sombody can
tell me where Access stores these changes.
Then I can make a backup of the changes and restore them when this
happens again...
I am using Access 97 with Windows 98. Upgrading Access or Windows is
not an option!

Any help is appreciated!

Modifications to the built in menus and toolbars are stored in the System
Registry. If you have System Restore Points enabled you might be able to
revert to a previous Restore point to get your changes back. This differs
from totally new command bars that you create which are stored in the MDB
file itself.

 

[a]

Thanks Rick!
I did a check on the registry. There was an error found and I got a message
that the system was about to restore the latest backup.
After a reboot I got all the menus and buttons back!
I discovered that all information regarding the menus and buttons are stored
in this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Access\Settings\CommandBars
So with regedit I selected this key and exported all the values as a backup.
Thanks again!

John.