Create Blank 2003 database results in different sizes

message from =?Utf-8?B?am9l?= on 6 May 2004
I created 2 blank 2002 (SP-1) databases (under Win 2k) to import my '97 FE and BE databases that were not converting successfully. I saved both 'blanks' without importing, accessing, or viewing any of the new database structure (no content was installed). I noticed the first database was 100K, and the second database was 104K! Before I created the 2nd database, Windows Installer popped-up and announced the installation of a "..Microsoft Access Feature.."; no other detail.

I can recreate the problem (Why should Windows need to re-install a missing feature?), and tried to identify the Installation activity with InstCtl, but I am at a loss to identify the offending component.

I am a little paranoid because I found the Welch virus on my computer a couple weeks ago, although I have current Symantic Internet Security and Anti-Virus definitions. I have since downloaded and run the 30 latest Extraction & removal tools from the Symantic web site just to be sure.

Any clues???
 
=?Utf-8?B?am9l?= replied to =?Utf-8?B?am9l?= on 6 May 2004
BTW, successive 'OPEN's of these blank databases cause successive 'install' events, and often result in the (blank) database increasing by an additional 4k!!!
 

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