Help - strange things when double clicking an MDB file!

[ekimr]

Hi,

I have just installed office 2000 on an XP machine:

When I double click on the MDB file I get the following boxes up saying:

Windows Installer> "preparing to install"

Please wait while windows configures Microsoft access 2000...

And then my database opens?

Can anybody shed any links on why this should happen.

Many thanks

Mike

 

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[ekimr]

Hi,

This was a machine that has been rebuilt from win. 2000 to have XP on it.

It did I believe have office 2000 on before. I looked before I installed office onto the XP under add/remove to see if it had any other versions remaining on since the upgrade to XP and there wasn't any.

Thanks

Mike

 

[AccessNerd]

I just saw this same thing happen on a friends Windows XP Pro PC that has always had Office 2000 installed. He aske me to help because his son installed AOL 8.0 and the PC went haywire. What I found was that AOL 8.0 did something to the default user account. When the system booted, Win XP reported that user profile was corrupted and was stating with a temporary user profile. Any changes made to Windows setting would be lost. I then attempted to run Word 2000 and received the same message that you receive. When I rebooted the PC, the same scenario occurred. I had to create a new user account to stop this. However, everything on the PC that was under the original user account is now gone.

I have to assume that your problem is user account related also.