John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Aug 21 12:10:35 CDT 2003
Yep, this is definitely cool stuff. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:40 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile Examining that site, this link is good because it gives visuals to what I was explaining: http://168.144.193.113/more/A97A2KREG.htm Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > Michael R Mattys > Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 11:11 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Decompile > > > Try this context menu: > > http://168.144.193.113 > > http://168.144.193.113/downloads/acc2kacc97.zip > > Michael R. Mattys > www.mattysconsulting.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com> > To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:47 AM > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile > > > > That is a pretty cool idea! > > > > Drew > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stuart Sanders [mailto:stuart at pacific.net.hk] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 11:48 PM > > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile > > > > > > Thinking about this I thought of a cool (in my view) way of > handling this, > > that is probably what Susan was talking about. Now I'm > > wondering why I didn't do this years ago. > > > > 1. Start Windows Explorer, > > 2. Select Tools and then Folder Options... > > 3. Click on the File Types Tab > > 4. Find the MDB file type > > 5. Click Advanced > > 6. Chances are there are 2 options. Open in bold font > (denoting default) > > and New. You can pretty much add what you want here. > For decompile, > > 7. Click New > > 8. Under action type Decompile > > 9. Under Application used to perform action type the > equivalent for your > > install: > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" > /decompile > "%1" > > 10 Click OK and exit out > > > > And wallah! You now right click an mdb and have the > context option of > > decompiling it. > > > > But it doesn't stop there. For those of us juggling > multiple versions of > > Access you can setup a right click option to open in each. > > Eg > > Open in 97 > > Open in 2000 > > Open in XP > > > > And make sure the path points to the correct version of access. > > > > Cheers > > > > Stuart > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > > > Charlotte Foust > > > Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2003 5:51 AM > > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Decompile > > > > > > > > > I have Send To shortcuts on my WinXP box, if that's what > > > you're talking > > > about. The path you show isn't the default for Office > XP, so is that > > > the actual syntax or an approximation? In WinXP, the > sendto shortcuts > > > are in the SendTo folder under your profile in Documents > and Settings. > > > Mine looks like this: > > > > > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\MSACCESS.EXE" "%1" > > > /decompile > > > > > > Charlotte Foust > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Susan Geller [mailto:sgeller at cce.umn.edu] > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:40 PM > > > To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com > > > Subject: [AccessD] Decompile > > > > > > > > > I have Windows XP, Access XP and I'm trying to decompile my > > > ADP file. > > > > > > I had this set up on another computer, but that was Windows > > > 2000. I did > > > this using this type of syntax > > > > > > "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" > > > /decompile "%1" > > > > > > In such a way that when I right clicked on a file, I had > the option to > > > decompile. > > > > > > I followed the same instructions on this computer and there > > > is no right > > > click option when I clicked on mdb or adp files. > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > --Susan > > > > > > Susan B. 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