Access97 in the Registry - Help please?

message from Gary D. on 21 May 2004

I have Access97 and am trying to add a user /Profile to the Windows98
registry and have followed the instructions given in the Access97 Help
File for creating a User Profile.

But no joy, it doesn't appear to work.
When I try to run the desired application using a shortcut, I receive
this error message:-
"The profile 'MyDBAppProfile' that you specified on the command line
doesn't exist in the Windows Registry."

I have checked and I have the following registry entries:-
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1
\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1
all having the entry "Behavior Entering Field 0x00000002 (2)"
(PS. I am trying to set up the keyboard behaviour for a particular
database)

- AND -

with the following referenced entries:-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Access\Profiles
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Access\Profiles
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Access\Profiles
all having the entry "MyDBAppProfile"
with value of "\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1"
(as above)
I have also tried modifying this value to:-
"Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1"
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1" (as
appropriate)
and also the fully qualified
"My Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1"

My shortcut has the Command Line:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\msaccess.exe" /profile
"MyDBAppProfile" "C:\My Documents\Database\MyDBApp.mdb" /nostartup

Yet I still get the error message.

What am I doing wrong here?

david epsom dot com dot au replied to Gary D. on 24 May 2004

drop the leading \
try
"Software\MyHomePC\MyDBApp\Version1"

drop the quotes:
try
/profile MyDBAppProfile

(david)
PS:
Split Affect == seperation between emotion and thinking = inappropriate
response to stimulation.
<> multiple personalities. For example, responding to a joke with a comment
about language might be an indication of shizophrenia. Or perhaps I'm just
a geek....

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Chris Mills replied to david epsom dot com dot au on 25 May 2004

So, that "sound bite" was awesome, yes. I'm still ROF.

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