Double-clicking on Shortcut Doesn’t Work

Ok, you’re sitting at your desk and you get a call. A user double-clicks on their shortcut and the Access 2003 application does not open. No error. No activity. Nothing.

The user can still open up Microsoft Access, and open the MDB file from there just fine. What’s going on?

This is actually a common problem.

Network technicians don’t always know that an MS Access shortcut actually requires you to reference ‘msaccess.exe’. They’ll generally copy the .mdb and ‘paste shortcut’ on their desktop. Oh the shortcut will work if no one else is in the database, but once someone gets in. For whatever reason the access shortcut needs the reference.

Anyways I hope this post helps someone out. If it does let me know in my comment section!

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