[AccessD] Windows XP - Access closes unexpectedly

John,

Does it happen during a specific part of the programme?  I had a situation 
where every time I tried to import an excel spreadsheet Access would come 
up with "Unexpected Error", then close down.  Eventually it was tracked 
down to the shortcut being used to open the programme (a virtually 
identical copy of the FE was opening fine.  When we changed its shortcut to 
the problem FE then the problem went away.  When we tried opening the good 
FE with the corrupt shortcut the good FE started crashing.  Our solution 
was to delete the bad shortcut and make a copy of the good shortcut.  Never 
found out why the shortcut should have caused the problem.)

Regards

David Emerson
Dalyn Software Ltd
25 Cunliffe St, Churton Park
Wellington, New Zealand
Ph/Fax (04) 478-7456
Mobile 027-280-9348

At 24/09/2004, you wrote:
>The application, security, and system logs.  They would be somewhere under
>administrative tools (or maybe under the Manage Computer add-in).  Under
>Win2K, it is under Programs\Administrative Tools\Event Viewer.
>
>I'll look at home to see where it is in XP.
>
>Bobby
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Colby, John
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:16 PM
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>
>what event logs?
>
>John W. Colby
>The DIS Database Guy
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bobby Heid [mailto:bheid at appdevgrp.com]
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:58 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] Windows XP - Access closes unexpectedly
>
>
>Haven't heard of that one.  Is there anything in the event logs?
>
>Bobby
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Colby, John
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:11 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: [AccessD] Windows XP - Access closes unexpectedly
>
>
>Have any of you seen Access close unexpectedly on Windows XP machines?  My
>client has a mix of Win98 / Win2K and WinXP machines.  EVERY machine with
>WinXP is reporting the app just shutting down, no warning, no nothing.  NONE
>of the non-XP machines reports this.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=320299
>
>reports this problem, but with an error message.  My client DOES have some
>sort of network issues, all the machines (users) have, at one time or
>another reported the old "disk or network error" meaning they lost
>connection to the server briefly.  In Windows98/2k you just continue on.  It
>would seem that in Windows XP the OS itself will terminate Access when this
>happens.  A tad RUDE don't you think?
>
>Anyone else seeing this?
>
>John W. Colby
>The DIS Database Guy