Article ID: 304173 - Last Review: March 3, 2006 - Revision: 6.1 You receive an "ActiveX Component Can't Create Object" error message when you open switchboardThis article was previously published under Q304173 Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb). For a Microsoft Access 2000 version of this article, see 296204 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296204/EN-US/ ) . SYMPTOMS
When you use the Switchboard Manager to try to create a new Switchboard or when you open an existing Switchboard in a Microsoft Access database, you receive the following error message:
Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object. CAUSE
This behavior occurs if the installed version of Microsoft Data Access
Components (MDAC) is not compatible with the current installation of Access.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, you must reinstall MDAC. To do so, use either of the following methods:
MORE INFORMATIONFor additional information about MDAC installations, click the article numbers below
to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307255
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307255/EN-US/
)
INFO: Component Checker: Diagnose Problems and Reconfigure MDAC Installations
244499
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244499/
)
How To Install MDAC Components on Windows 2000 Platform
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