Re: Can't open Access database

From: Ken Snell [MVP] (kthsneisllis9_at_ncoomcastt.renaetl)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:37 -0500

Rick - does this occur only when the Windows XP SP2 firewall is running? or
in all cases? I'm not running Windows default firewall, and am wondering if
that is why I don't see this behavior? 

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        Ken Snell
<MS ACCESS MVP>
"Rick Brandt" <rickbrandt2@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Ken Snell [MVP]" <kthsneisllis9@ncoomcastt.renaetl> wrote in message 
> news:%23a6xXQoBFHA.2608@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> From a post by Rick Brandt just recently:
>>
>> If he has Serveice Pack 2 for Windows XP installed it "Blocks" all
>> executable files that come from other systems whether that be Email or 
>> being
>> dragged from the network.  You have to right-click on the file, view the
>> properties, and press the [Unblock] button in the lower right.  Then the
>> file will work.
>
> This is just another "well intended" screw up on MS part.  My 
> understanding of how this feature is *supposed to work* is that you get a 
> warning about the file, but along with the warning is the option to open 
> the file "if you are sure about its organ".  Choosing that option then 
> removes the block from the file.  Instead you get this very badly worded 
> message and are not offered any information about what you are supposed to 
> do that is actually helpful (or even accurate).
>
> Zip files are worse.  If you send a Zip file to someone with SP2, XP will 
> treat it as a compressed folder and let you view the files contained 
> within, but if you attempt to extract them (either explicitly or by 
> dragging and dropping) you get an error message that suggests that the 
> compressed volume is corrupted. Once you "Unblock" the zip file then 
> everything is fine.  The number of support calls caused by this must be 
> huge.
>
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