Re: ADO uninstall - how to?

Frank

I tried installing 2.8 but my system says that it is already installed. I'm
running Windows XP Home with SP2.

"Frank Hickman [MVP]" <fhickman_NOSP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "James Houston" <houstjd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I'm having all sorts of problems with ADO. Component Checker reports
>> that the version of MDAC is unknown, running dasetup.exe gives an error
>> message that says "Error load EULA file", and whenever I try to run any
>> process on a Foxpro table linked to an Access 97 DB, my PC locks up. I
>> also wrote a function in VB6 to create a recordset based on the same
>> Foxpro table that is supposed to simply list the field names in the
>> table. When I try to call this function, VB quits. I suspect that all
>> this is due to a hosed MDAC installation. What I'd like to do is
>> uninstall MDAC and just start over again. Is this possible? If so, how
>> do I go about doing this, short of reformating my hard drive and
>> reinstalling everything. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
> Yes it does sound a little screwed up...what version of MDAC are you
> trying to install and what OS are you trying to install it on? It also
> sounds like your mdactyp.exe may be corrupted, have you tried deleting the
> one you have and redownloading it?
>
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