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Why does Access report it can't receive a command to its program?

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Mar 15, 202657658 views
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I just upgraded to Windows 7, and when after reinstalling my MS Office, I have an interesting error. When I click on a database, I get a popup message "There was a problem sending the command to the program", but the file application will still start and the proper database does get open. Has anyon…

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Fix for: Why does Access report it can't receive a command to its program?

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Basically, this error appears if a file type is set up to use DDE (an old Windows-3.x-style communication protocol between applications running on the same computer) to open a file. You will find it in file types in folder options of explorer (maybe…

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