[AccessD] Windows 7: run access as administrator

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Sep 8 14:16:27 CDT 2012


I was getting a constant "Allow this application to make changes?" message when opening ANY 
specific access databases, i.e. the shortcut telling Access to open FE_XYZ.  This thing has been 
annoying me since I started running Windows 7 and pinning specific databases on the task bar.

Today I found the answer.

Access.exe (in Program files (x86) ) has a property called "run as administrator" which was checked, 
how I do not know.  I unchecked that and voila, no more harassment when opening a database.

I have the same issue opening spreadsheets etc.  I suspect the answer will be the same, unchecking 
that property for Excel.exe.

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John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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