Today I watched as my PC got Microsquashed. Access, of all things, stopped working. Just what I don't need. So I ran my registry checkers without any benefit. I ran my antivirus and antispyware without any benefit. I "repaired" Access without any change. It's cold comfort to see the Microsquash message: "Successfully repaired your Access application" when all it did was waste my time. I reinstalled Access and saw the same message. But whatever I did, when you asked to look at the Visual Basic window, it would agree and then display the hideous hourglass cursor for, uh, hours. I tried this with Word 2000 and it did the same. That told me that I was NOT going to win.
But wait! I have an Acronis True Image (uh) image of the hard disk as of 12/29/06!!! It worked and so I used it and cloned that hard disk into a spare tire. Several days later I realized that my Outlook mail was on the C: partition, (unlike most of my documents which are on another drive) and three weeks of email had been lost.
What do non-nerds do when Windows misbehaves?
I was so very lucky to have my image of only 3 weeks ago. All I had to do was install drivers for toys bought between then and now.
2 comments:
Did you ever figure out what went wrong?
Doug!
No. I didn't revisit the problem.
Two things really help in doing Access development:
1. Back up your work every time you make a change that you don't want to have to redo.
2. Make an image of your boot drive regularly. You may have to go back if all else fails. And it will.
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