I have an application using an old version of access that i developed
over 5 years ago, anyway I need to resurect it.

It has wrkgrp passwrod protection. It appears the app and the data are
split. Reason was that the data resided on a server and the app would
be executed by a user on their individual computer.

Here is the shortcut link for opening the data:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE"
"U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srsTESTdata.mdb" /wrkgrp
U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srs.mdw /user mike

I had to supply the passwrod. When I opened this I could see the tables
and the queries. so cool.

Here is the shortcut link for opening the app portion:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE"
"U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srsTEST.mdb" /wrkgrp
U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srs.mdw /user mike

I had to supply the password for this too. When I opened this i got a
splash screen, but then it just hangs there. Apparently a form is being
opened. I can see in the left top "File, Window, Help", but not
clickable. I'd like to "escape" or "cntl-break" to escape and get out
of the form. I am being logged in as the administrator. Something is
hanging .... some old code. I looked in my task manager to ck if it was
"not responding", but shows as "running".

So, my question: How do escape so I can get to the code and modify it?

There must be some keystrokes that excape form the splashscreen. When I
press F12 it asks if I want to save the splahscreen.

Any help appreciated.

Mike

Try holding down the shift key while you're opening the database.

You'd probably be better off, too, if you copied the application part 
database (srsTEST.mdb) to your harddrive, and changed the shortcut to point 
there, rather than to the server.

-- 
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no e-mails, please!)



"mike" <hillmw@charter.net> wrote in message 
news:1131061134.478132.140860@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I have an application using an old version of access that i developed
> over 5 years ago, anyway I need to resurect it.
>
> It has wrkgrp passwrod protection. It appears the app and the data are
> split. Reason was that the data resided on a server and the app would
> be executed by a user on their individual computer.
>
> Here is the shortcut link for opening the data:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE"
> "U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srsTESTdata.mdb" /wrkgrp
> U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srs.mdw /user mike
>
> I had to supply the passwrod. When I opened this I could see the tables
> and the queries. so cool.
>
> Here is the shortcut link for opening the app portion:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE"
> "U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srsTEST.mdb" /wrkgrp
> U:\my_docs\File_types\vb_pgms\srs\srs.mdw /user mike
>
> I had to supply the password for this too. When I opened this i got a
> splash screen, but then it just hangs there. Apparently a form is being
> opened. I can see in the left top "File, Window, Help", but not
> clickable. I'd like to "escape" or "cntl-break" to escape and get out
> of the form. I am being logged in as the administrator. Something is
> hanging .... some old code. I looked in my task manager to ck if it was
> "not responding", but shows as "running".
>
> So, my question: How do escape so I can get to the code and modify it?
>
> There must be some keystrokes that excape form the splashscreen. When I
> press F12 it asks if I want to save the splahscreen.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Mike
> 

Thanks the shift key worked .....