Useless Access 2003

I have seen in other posts where Access 2003 displays a box showing "Unknown"

I'm getting the same error, so I thought I'd do some investigation.

The error is caused by a jump by MSACCESS.EXE into DLL entry point that doesn't exist.

The Unknown error seems to be a catch all error message for unhandled exceptions such as this.

This is the first time I've used Access 2003, I tend to avoid Access at all costs, prefer to use SQL Server.

I decided to attach a debugger to Access and catch the original exception, ah ha, "Class not registered" - so there is something missing.

I've tracked down a problem in the VBA routines which so happen to be in a bunch of DLLs that have been recently modified.

I wonder if Microsoft have been naughty and are calling directly into the DLLs rather than using their vector tables...

Looks very silly when you create a new database and you can't open it again.

Not holding out any hope of Microsoft sorting this problem out... thankfully I have more than one computer... I'm removing Access 2003 from this PC, no point in having it if it doesn't work.

BTW:Access was rubbish until Microsoft "bought" FoxPro and Fox Software and got the Rushmore technology.... Anyone for some Sybase - SQL Server ?