Microsoft Access has stopped working

Question

Hi,

I am having trouble using Microsoft Access 2013 or Microsoft Access 2016. I get the following error message.

Microsoft Access has stopped working

A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

I used to have Office 2013 and Windows 7. Everything was working fine. Then I upgraded to Windows 10 keeping Office 2013 two weeks ago. Access 2013 worked initially. I then upgraded to Office 365 (Office 2016) for compatibility. My Access programs worked initially. I then downgraded back to Office 2013 as our company still has Office 2013. The Access program worked initially but for the past week I get the error message above.

I have tried all permutations. Uninstalling Office 2013, restarting computer, Installing Office 2016; Doing Online Repair of Office 2016; Restarting computer; Uninstalling Office 2016; Restarting computer; Installing Office 2013; etc. I currently have Office 2016.

I did further analysis and discovered the following:

• Regular basic MS Access applications run fine
• MS Access applications with Tables, Forms, VBA code and modules work find
• MS Access applications with VBA User Forms do not open and give the above error message

Other PC's in our office are working fine.

Any help would be appreciated.

Siddharth

Answer 1

Hello,

Just wanted to follow up if anybody has found a solution.

I am unable to open MS Access Applications that have VBA User Forms. Others in our company are able to open these applications.

Siddharth

Answer 2

I am able to open applications with VBA. Just not applications with User Forms (created through VBA).

I tried decompiling my application (the one with User Forms) but I get the same error message when open using decompile command

Answer 3

Did you try decompiling one of these applications?

The Northwind sample application has some VBA as well. Can you not open it either?