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by kenone 2 views

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Newly built machine, WinXPSp3, Office 2000, Everything works except Access, try to open any database and I get "RunTime Error 1_2147220999 (800401F9)". Uninstalled office, re-installed, uninstalled and reinstalled a different version, uninstalled and installed Access runtime only. Machine is all updated but it doesn't seem to matter to the access problem.
First occurred on SP2 update made no difference.

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by ---tk---

uninstalling everything, delete the files left over in "program files", also left over files in the Hidden directories... C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft

C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name\Application Data\Microsoft

and then reinstall... I have never scene that error, and there doesn't seem to be much on the net about it... its just a shot in the dark.

by kenone

After one of the uninstalls, I forget which, I went through and deleted everything I could find that referred to MSOffice, including the registry. This error occurs to any user on this machine, does not seem to be profile related.

by shasca

There are some references to MDAC corruption causing this type of error. Is that your infrastructure?

by kenone

I'm not sure but isn't MDAC part of XP? Is there any way to re-install it? repair it?

by shasca

Yeah I think it is version 2.8. You might try looking up MDAC fixes. I saw several after searching your error. Some suggested an upgrade, others suggested a repair.

I don't even know for sure that is your issue. Since it is pretty obscure when searching it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MDAC+errrors

by seanferd

The WInstaller was broken in the original RTM. I ended up downloading the SP which was just as large as the original installation disk, pretty much just to fix that. It caused endless problems.

by seanferd

So installing Office 2k breaks the XPSP2 version of MDAC? Swell.

Thanks for the info.
:-bd

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