SYSTEM.MDW FILE CHANGES TO SYSTEM,MDW_

J

JCLARK

WHEN I SHUT OFF MY COMPUTER AT NITE, THE NEXT DAY I CANNOT
OPEN ACCESS...THE SYSTEM.MDW FILE IS MISSING. I CAN FIND A
SYSTEM.MDW_ FILE, I RENAME IT TO SYSTEM.MDW AND ACCESS
WORKS FINE TIL I SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER AGAIN. WHAT IS
GOING ON?
 
D

DMONTEITH

I have a user having the same problem.
Tried reloading Acces. Still does it.
Tried reloading Office 97. Still does it.
Ran all the MS updates, checked for and cleaned off
spy/adware, checked for viruses ( none ). Still does it.
Tried running Office 97 SR2-b. Still does it.
I may reload the guy, but until I decide, I wrote a batch
file that renames the file back to system.mdw for him and
told him to run that whenever he reboots and put it on his
desktop.

Any help would be appreciated GREATLY.
 
A

Andre Belpanno

DMONTEITH said:
I have a user having the same problem.
Tried reloading Acces. Still does it.
Tried reloading Office 97. Still does it.
Ran all the MS updates, checked for and cleaned off
spy/adware, checked for viruses ( none ). Still does it.
Tried running Office 97 SR2-b. Still does it.
I may reload the guy, but until I decide, I wrote a batch
file that renames the file back to system.mdw for him and
told him to run that whenever he reboots and put it on his
desktop.

Any help would be appreciated GREATLY.
Click to expand...

Has anyone found a solution to this problem. One of my users is
currently experiencing the same issue on his PC.
 
6

'69 Camaro

Access 97 stores the default System.MDW file in the Windows System32
directory. This is a protected directory. I suspect that the operating
system or some installed utility is "recovering" this file at startup each
day.

As a work-around, make a copy of the default System.MDW file (make sure that
it's named "System.MDW" and not the wrong one) and place it in a directory
on the computer's hard drive where the user has "Full Control" security
permissions. Use the Workgroup administrator to join this "New" workgroup.

Now when the System.MDW_ appears in the Windows System32 directory at
startup, you don't care. It could be renamed to "Timbuktu.mdw," and you
will be oblivious because that file won't affect Access in any way while you
are joined to a "good" default workgroup information file in another
directory.

HTH.

Gunny

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