Automatic Updates

[einie]

I have Windows XP Home Edition with all the updates and Office XP-Student
and Teacher Edition with all the updates. This version of Office does not
include Access as I understand it but today the automatic update feature
wants to to download an update for Access 2002. Does anyone know what's
going on?

Ron

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ron,

Do you have an Access Runtime on the PC perhaps or the Access Snapshot
Viewer (in Add/Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel)?

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I have Windows XP Home Edition with all the updates and Office XP-Student
and Teacher Edition with all the updates. This version of Office does not
include Access as I understand it but today the automatic update feature
wants to to download an update for Access 2002. Does anyone know what's
going on?

Ron >>

 

[einie]

Hi Bob:

Thanks for responding. I did not find Access Runtime or Access Snapshot
Viewer in Add/Remove programs. In addition, I couldn't find either one in My
Computer or in Search from the Start Menu. Any other ideas?

Ron

 

[George Nicholson]

If you click "Details..." for that update you can eventually get to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905867
It explains that the date on a specific dll which both Access and Excel use
is what prompts the "false" update. The article says the workaround is to
not install the update if you don't have Access 2002/XP installed. (i.e.,
check "Don't show this again", I guess)

It doesn't say what happens if you accept the update, but I doubt it would
be anything terrible.

HTH,

 

[einie]

Hi George:

Thanks for your response. In any event, I'm not going to download it.

Ron