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help please with win xp sp1 and patches
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Posted by: NinaAusten
help please, i'm going nuts...
i recently suffered a virus and spyware attack on my thinkpad, so i formatted my harddrive so as to start from scratch. having learned a bitter lesson, i updated my sp1 and all other updates via ms website before i installed any software and before i ever reconnected to the internet.
now, i don't have spywares anymore (except for the "required" spywares from kazaa which i just block with a firewall), but i've encountered some problems:
- i've installed mssql server 7.0, but it won't run properly
- my visual basic 6.0 won't run properly (won't even open)
i've tried removing sp1 and then reinstalling sql7, and sql worked (although i still get errors when i try to open the tables to read data). but now, i think my data access components are shot because my vb program that uses ms access can't read my access mdb. i haven't uninstalled all windows updates that i got from the web, so i'm thinking maybe (darn it!) that i have to uninstall everyone of them, reinstall vb and sql, and then install the patches and sp1.
it's so irksome because it's such a long process, which is ok by me if i'm 100% sure that this is the right way to go. problem is i'm not.
has anyone here encountered this? any advice please??? i'm so tempted to reformat my hard drive again, but the last time i did that i had to devote two days to get everything back the way it was.
help will be greatly greatly appreciated 
Posted by: NinaAusten
whoops this should've been in the windows thread... sorry. could a moderator please move this???
thanks!!
Posted by: craxx_2
did you install the Microsoft® JET engine ? It may have alot to do with why your sql won't start.
Never reformat your hard just for a virus or spyware issue. There are too many great apps that will remove them all or sites that will assist you in manually removing them.
Good luck.
Posted by: NinaAusten
i repaired visual studio 6 using the installer cd. will this fix ms jet engine? i don't know where do get an installer for this
Posted by: NinaAusten
btw i reformatted my drive because my registry was a mess! and well sort of bad luck also that i discovered some spyware killers on the net after i reformatted it... sigh...
Posted by: craxx_2
Try here |
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=239114
Posted by: jrpm
There is a set of components called MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) that apply both to SS7 and to VB6. Just updating the Jet engine may not help. The whole ODBC subsystem (they use a lot of the same APIs) comes into play.
For the latest and greatest, you probably need MDAC 2.6. SS7 will have MDAC2.1 (I think, or at least something less than 2.6, possibley 2.5).
MDAC applies also to your Access (although it tends to rely on your Jet, if you use lots of VBA you may be going into RDO or ADO, where MDAC plays. VB6 wants to use ADO.)
You can download the MDAC updates from MS Technet.
SS7 is also up to SP4. You might want to look at it as well. The original version was designed for NT4 (and is not supported on NT Server 2003, by the way) and there are some things to accommodate XP, particularly in the ISQL area. Also, as I remember it, Enterprise editions are not supported/not supposed to work on XP, you need to be loading standard edition, if I remember correctly (it has been a while since I tried an SS install on XP.)
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