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Access 2003 - "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003"

GaryS started a thread titled All Applications work but Access . I was stumped but he did some more sleuthing and figured out that the Access 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: December 18, 2007 solved the problem. To GaryS - thanks for posting...
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Bug in ADO, SQL Server and latest OS SPs

On a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows XP, an incorrect value is returned when an application queries the identity column value of a newly inserted row in various versions of SQL Server 2005 and of SQL Server 2000...
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The expression On Click you entered ...

I was getting the below error message in Access 2003 when I clicked on a command button. Likely because I was working on a form module and possibly saved it while the form was in regular view and not in design view. "The expression On Click you entered...
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Getting Your "Favorite" <Microsoft Product> Bug Fixed

A very interesting article describing how Microsoft personnel decides which bugs get fixed first. Getting Your "Favorite" SQL Server Bug Fixed . This does apply to other products within Microsoft. Allen Brown, of course, has done a fine job...
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Access 2003 SP3 bug on bit data type field in a linked SQL Server table

We've been seeing reports of this in the newsgroups. Here's Microsoft's KB article: After you install Office 2003 SP3, you encounter various problems in an Access project when you work with a Bit data type column in a linked SQL Server table
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Running Access on a Windows Vista peer to peer network?

Are you running Access on a Windows Vista peer to peer network? That is the back end MDB is on a Windows Vista machine. And the front end is also on a Windows Vista box. Wierd things are happening? Performance is terrible or Access crashes? The problem...
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