Bug Alert BUG ALERT: FortiClient VPN and Windows Update KB5018410 A recent Windows Update broke my FortiClient VPN. Learn which update was responsible, how to uninstall it, *and* how to keep it from coming back.
Bug Alert Bug Alert Follow-Up: CurrentDb and DAO.OpenDatabase A member of the Microsoft Access engineering team provides an official explanation for the "buggy" CurrentDb and DAO.OpenDatabase behavior.
Bug Alert BUG ALERT: CurrentDb and DAO.OpenDatabase If you are getting intermittent error messages saying you don't have exclusive access to your database, then this workaround may help.
Bug Alert Bug Alert: Wizards Don't Work with MVFs and Attachment Fields Beginning with version 2006, Access hangs when running the Report or Labels Wizard on a table with a multi-valued field (MVF) or attachment field.
Bug Alert WARNING: Do NOT Declare DAO Fields As Field2, Field3, etc. While declaring DAO Field objects as Field2 will get you additional IntelliSense, it comes at the risk of breaking working code when MS releases a new Field type.
Bug Alert Office FeatureGates: How Microsoft Can Break and Fix Their Applications in Under 24 Hours Microsoft Access regularly breaks following Office updates. But, sometimes, it *starts* working again just as suddenly. Here's how that works.
Bug Alert BUG ALERT: No Current Record An Access bug introduced in the latest Patch Tuesday update caused major headaches for developers around the world today.
Bug Alert Bug Alert: Cannot Open Any More Tables/Databases Check out the latest bug release from Microsoft: "Cannot open any more tables/databases.", .laccdb file remains, msaccess.exe hangs, and more...
Bug Alert Bug Alert: Can't Access Shared Folders via UNC Alias UNC aliases are a great way to set up development environments for Access applications that rely on UNC paths. It's too bad Microsoft broke them.
Bug Alert Patching Access 2013 Runtime to Fix "File Already In Use" Bug Step-by-step process to patch the 2021 Holiday Bug for Office/Access 2013. These same steps can be adapted to patch other versions, too.
Bug Alert Partial Workaround for the "Could not lock file" Bug This experimental function could help you avoid the "Could not lock file" error when running the OpenDatabase method of a DBEngine object.
Bug Alert Access Bug Alert: Errors When Opening Network Database Files If you started receiving the error "File in use" or "Could not lock file" in December 2021, you may be the victim of an Access bug. Here's how to fix it.
Bug Alert Compact on Close Danger Compact on Close. It seems innocent enough. But lurking under this seeming convenience is the spectre of corruption just lying in wait.
Bug Alert Bug Alert: Malwarebytes New behavior-matching algorithms in Malwarebytes block execution of Access applications that call out to the Shell function.
Bug Alert MS Access Report Horizontal Scroll Bar Bug When certain reports open, the horizontal scroll bar gets drawn on the screen and then gets stuck in its original draw location.
Advanced Super-Safe Boolean Handling If you want to be safe when working with Booleans, you need to ensure they're stored as 0 or -1. That's not as easy as you might think.
Intermediate The Subtle Dictionary Key Bug Always explicitly call the .Value property when using fields or controls as Dictionary keys. Else the bugs come crawling!