XP Style blows Access

[Bonnie]

Hi all. Using A02 on XP. When our company upgraded from 97
to XP, we began noticing that Access (as well as other
applications) was blowing up from time to time for no
known reason. You could be editing a record, moving from
record to record, opening or even closing a form or file.
Then you get the dialog box with "Microsoft Access has
experienced an error and must close. We apologize for the
inconvenience. etc." There is a check box that you must
deselect or it will create a backup copy of your file and
open that (it says something about restarting Access). It
asks if you wish to report the problem and you can select
Send or Don't Send. (I'm giving this from memory so please
forgive any misquotes.) The only thing to a clue I have to
stop it is to go to your Desktop Properties, Appearance,
Windows & Buttons dropdown. If I select Windows Classic
Style rather than Windows XP Style, I VERY RARELY get the
error. Any ideas about this and how I can make it stop?
I'd appreciate any help, clues, advice or direction.
Thanks in advance for your time.

 

[Allen Browne]

See:
Converting from Access 97 to 2000, 2002 or 2003
at:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~allenbrowne/ser-48.html

The first 3 issues under Usability will be particularly important to getting
A2002 stable.

Ensuring the correct service packs for both Office XP and JET is also
important (Setup section of the article).

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

As this is happening with other applications as well as Access, I'd say the
chances are good that it's a display adapter problem. You could try checking
the manufacturer's web site for a driver update.

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[Joe Hopkins]

I don't know if this will help because I'm still an
Access97 amateur developer. I use a multi-user application
designed in 97. When we purchased a couple of new
computers two years ago that had XP. I placed Office97 on
the XP's. One of the XP's is used to hold the data files.
I found the same type of problems when I accessed the
files from both the XP and Windows 98 computers. The
computers were utilizing the same .mdw file. I decided to
allow the XP computers to access another copy of the .mdw
file from a different location. Things have worked well
since.