Access install issue

[Karebear]

After installing Access in a locked environment, we are running Windows 2000 and office 2000. We are getting the following error:
It's a Source Code Control error
The source code control provider did not initialize properly and won't let us into Access. We have uninstalled and reinstalled access both locally and across the network but to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Karrie

 

[BobStubbs]

You say that this is a 'locked environment', so I assume you are using policies or some other restriction mechanism to control what users can do on a workstation?

If so ... do you see the problem on a workstation when using an account which has full 'administrator' rights?

.. If you don't see the problem when logged in with admin rights, then one of your policies / security restrictions is interfering with Access. I have seen a similar problem, and you just have to work through the settings, with the person / team responsible for policies, until you find the one which is causing the problem.

... If you still see the problem when logged in with Admin rights, then maybe there is a component of Access or Office which is missing from your workstation image.

I hope these thoughts will be of some use.

Bob Stubbs

 

[Karebear]

Thanks for the quick response...
you are correct on the lock down environment statement.
The error occurs when we are logged in as admin, as well as with the users credentials. We have used Eraser2K to kill any installs of Office 2k and any runtime versions of MS Access. Now after cleaning and reinstalling we try to launch Access, it brings up the splash screen and then disappears...any ideas?
Karebear

 

[BobStubbs]

Now it sounds as though you have a component of Windows itself missing or disabled in some way.

Does Access show this behaviour - i.e. splash screen then disappearing - if you don't try to open a database, but just run Access itself off a menu?

It might also be worth searching the Microsoft technical support web site for any references to this (I tried to do this just now, but their site is very slow at the moment, and times out on me!)

Bob Stubbs