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.

A member of the Microsoft Access engineering team provides an official explanation for the "buggy" CurrentDb and DAO.OpenDatabase behavior.

If you are getting intermittent error messages saying you don't have exclusive access to your database, then this workaround may help.

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.

Microsoft Access regularly breaks following Office updates. But, sometimes, it *starts* working again just as suddenly. Here's how that works.

An Access bug introduced in the latest Patch Tuesday update caused major headaches for developers around the world today.

Check out the latest bug release from Microsoft: "Cannot open any more tables/databases.", .laccdb file remains, msaccess.exe hangs, and more...

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.

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.

This experimental function could help you avoid the "Could not lock file" error when running the OpenDatabase method of a DBEngine object.

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.

Compact on Close. It seems innocent enough. But lurking under this seeming convenience is the spectre of corruption just lying in wait.

New behavior-matching algorithms in Malwarebytes block execution of Access applications that call out to the Shell function.

When certain reports open, the horizontal scroll bar gets drawn on the screen and then gets stuck in its original draw location.