MOD2000: Run-time Options Help Topic Contains Incorrect Data

The "Set Microsoft Access run-time options" Help topic describes the following registry string values:

• AppIcon
• AppStartupScreen
• AppTitleBar

These settings do not work. If you try to use these string values, you notice no changes in your application.

The Help topic is incorrect.

The following are the correct registry string values:

• Icon
• StartupScreen
• TitleBar

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Steps to Display the Help Topic

1. Turn off the Office Assistant.
2. On the Help menu, click Microsoft Access Help.
3. Click the Answer Wizard tab.
4. Type registry.
5. In the topic that is returned in the right-hand pane, click the Customize your application's environment with user profiles link.
6. In the topic that is returned, click the Set Access run-time options link.

Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

1. On a Windows 98-based computer on which you have installed an Access run-time package, click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type regedit, and then click OK. Registry Editor starts.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\ACCESS RUNTIME\9.0\Profiles
4. Create a subkey under Profiles and name it MyCorp.
5. Create the following registry key and subkey entries:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MyCorp\1.0\Run-Time Options
6. Create the following string value under the subkey that you created in the step 5:
   AppTitleBar
7. Set the value of the AppTitleBar string to MyCorp.
8. Create the following string value under the subkey that you created in the step 7:
   AppStartupScreen
9. Set the value of the AppStartupScreen string to c:\Windows\Setup.bmp.
10. Create the following string value under the subkey that you created in the step 9:
    AppIcon
11. Set the value of the AppIcon string to c:\Windows\Winupd.ico.
12. Quit Registry Editor.
13. On the desktop, create a shortcut with the following command line.NOTE: The path to Msaccess.exe and to Northwind.mdb may be different on your computer.
    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\MSACCESS.EXE" /Profile "MyCorp" "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Samples\Northwind.MDB"
14. Click the shortcut that you just created to run Access.

Note that the custom startup screen does not appear. Also, the custom icon does not appear in the upper-left corner of the screen, and the application name, "MyCorp", is missing.

To correct this example, follow these steps:

1. On the Start menu, click Run.
2. Type regedit.
3. In Registry Editor, Locate the following registry key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MyCorp\1.0\Run-Time Options
4. Rename the following string values:
   • Change AppIcon to Icon.
   • Change AppStartupScreen to StartupScreen.
   • Change AppTitleBar to TitleBar.
   
   
5. Quit Registry Editor.
6. Click the shortcut again.

Note that the custom startup screen appears. Also, the custom icon appears in the upper-left corner of the screen and "MyCorp" is displayed as the application title.

For additional information on an issue with the AppHelpFile runtime option, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: