[AccessD] Windows 7

Tony Septav iggy at nanaimo.ark.com
Fri Jan 14 11:19:01 CST 2011


Hey John
Thanks.
I am  just waiting to see if it has solved the problem.

John Bartow wrote:

>Hi Tony,
>Access 2003 by itself runs fine under Windows 7. You found a couple of
>gothas with old applications in general though. 
>-Active X I just don't use them anymore so I'm not going to be of much help
>resolving that issue but you can at least know that they are an issue to
>resolve. 
>-CommonDialog control doesn't work under Vista or W7. I recently asked about
>this here and Stuart posted a perfect solution with code on 12/21/2010.
>Thread was " Comctl32.ocx" If you can't find it let me know and I'll forward
>it.
>
>HTH
>John B
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:11 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: [AccessD] Windows 7
>
>Hey All
>I have an Access2003 program (MDE) used by a client, they have upgraded
>their machines to Windows 7  and now they get the dreaded  "The OpenForm
>action was cancelled" when they click the button on the main menu for one
>option (the others all work fine). The only thing this form has that the
>others don't is a CommonDialog control.  I haven't as yet had them check for
>missing references (the office doesn't open until 8AM, I may have to send
>them the MDB to check).  They startup the program with their version of
>Access2003.  In trying to research the cause of this problem,  I am seeing
>that  Access2003 can develop some problems when running under Windows 7.
>Have any of you run into other  problems?
>
>Thanks
>Tony
> 
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