[AccessD] Can't open form

Re: installation of DLLS and OCX's

But no problems if using Tony Towes nifty program:
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/autofe.htm

Handles multiple files....overall just a well-designed utility.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> John W Colby
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:51 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Can't open form
>
> In a case like that if the workstations have high speed
> network connection then simply downloading the FE every time
> they use it works as well.  The "image" issue does make
> installation of custom DLLs and OCXs problematic.
>
> Arthur Fuller wrote:
> > I recently did a project for a government ministry. My original
> > thought was to put a local copy of the FE on each PC and a
> single copy
> > of the BE on a server, and was given a flat no. The guy went on to
> > explain that all local PCs are created from a single image, so
> > anything added since then would be destroyed the next time
> the drive
> > was imaged. I could see his point. Every once in a while, say when
> > they decide to upgrade Office or something, they just recreate the
> > image file and then update the thousand or so PCs scattered
> around the
> > province, all done remotely. I definitely see the sense in
> this approach.
> >
> > Arthur
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Tony Septav
> <iggy at nanaimo.ark.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Thanks Gustav
> >> I will try to register the existing ocx and see if that solves the
> >> problem  first. If not and as you are saying it shouldn't cause a
> >> problem on her machine (that is what bothered me, goofing
> around with
> >> someone elses settings, also they have a very
> possessive/territorial
> >> IT group who would love nothing better than to clobber a
> contractor
> >> for screwing something up), I will follow your instructions and
> >> rename the exisiting ocx and copy in my ocx.
> >>
> >> Thanks again.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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