I am using Office 2000. I have a small order tracking system that is about 40megs. When I run the Access Compacting feature in Access the blue indicator along the button of the program starts, goes about 1/3 of the way and stops. My tracking database opens back up to the main form page. The compacting feature creates a entire duplicate of the database on the desktop. I am running the database on a small lan network with four computers in total. Two of the computers are running Windows98 and two are running Windows XP. I recently ran the Office Update feature and upddated the program on all the work stations. Since the update I have been having this problem. I do not believe the Access Compacting is completing it job also. I have two other very small database around 2megs, and I can run the compacting feature on this two databases with no problems at all. I have tried copying the database to my computer that has not been updated, and the same issue of duplicating the database occurs when running the compacting tool. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I use this database all day long and do not want it be come corrupt. Thanks very much. Darren