Hello I have been using office 2016 (16.0.9029.2167) for about 8 months. Today Access will not start. I get the error "Automatic configuration of the current version of Microsoft Access has failed. Your database might not function correctly. This can occur if you do not have the necessary permissions to install Microsoft Access on this computer." Been using Office 2016 for months. Using it as administrator. I have changed nothing on the computer deliberately. When I go into Apps and Features I see that the date against Microsoft Access Pro Plus - en - us is 4th. Mar 2018 which is yesterday in Australia. I did not change/add any features. I have Windows 10 Pro, Version 1709, OS Build 16299.248 Any help appreciated. BTW how do I see if an update to Office occurred on 4 Mar 2018?

I say uninstall the latest update because that has always traditionally been the terminology used. Historically, you used the control panel and simply uninstalled an update. Thanks Daniel I thought that might be the case but was not 100% sure.

Hi SG re OpenOffice - yes and Google have equivalents but, and it's a BIG BUT, I have hundreds of 1000s of lines of Access VBA code. Have you had a close look at Base?

Allow me the slight satisfaction of a teeny weeny little rant... I have been thinking about this for years (decades now). Software companies and their employees suffer nil consequences (or so close to nil that it's equivalent to nil) as a result of their actions/errors/bugs - you know what I mean. Imagine buying a car and signing an equivalent document to what software vendors put out - you know - the one that basically states you shall use our product as is and we are not responsible for any losses incurred . Imagine Takata using that lame excuse for the deaths caused by their faulty airbag to try and avoid a multi-$billion fine and a multi-million car recall worldwide. The fine was for knowing about the fault/s and covering it up. No one can imagine that in the car industry and yet we live with the "nil-consequence to s/w vendors" concept without a peep - that I am aware of. I do not know when this will change - but I am confident it will change - perhaps when s/w starts killing people in autonomous vehicles - perhaps only then will legislators start to focus on what s/w vendors have been getting away with for decades.

The reversion of Office 2016 to Build 9001.2138 worked for me 100% and was very fast and very impressive. Daniel Pineault on his website page https://www.devhut.net/2018/03/05/ms-access-bug-automatic-configuration-of-the-current-version-of-microsoft-access-has-failed/ gives instructions under the heading of "Uninstall the Latest Office Update" how to revert to Build 9001.2138. But for me the location of program officec2rclient.exe is not where those instructions point to. It is located in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun" Possibly he may have been referring to Office 2013 file location as Microsoft Office 15 refers to Office 2013 (well at least that's my understanding). Just a heads-up for anyone else searching for it. Also, Outlook email accounts were not wiped out. So far the only 'loss' is the non-remembrance of the pinned and last-used files when right-clicking the icons in Start on Windows 10.

Tom, I realize that a switch to a different application suite may not be for everyone. (That was one of my tasks way back in the early days of I/T - converting stand-alone applications from IBM's OS/360 platform to Honeywell's 6000-series platform.) :-) Converting thousands of lines of VBA code could be a nuisance. It depends upon whether it is a greater inconvenience to re-write sections of code, or suffer downtime because of an unnecessary application bug. Microsoft's developers are extremely effective at promoting competing products, especially when they charge us for the delight of being their beta-testers, and then (sometimes) charge us again for fixing their errors. If a competing product is available at no cost to me, AND I have the option to upgrade on my own schedule (after I've reviewed the release notes) then it makes that competing product much more appealing. Also, I can keep the older installation packages on file such that backing up to a previous release is much easier to do than it has been with Microsoft's Windows-10/Office-365 headache scenario. I have not delved into the advanced features of OpenOffice (Base) - yet. However, the more downtime and inconvenience Microsoft inflicts, the more determined I become in doing so.

Cannot start Access today. Get error "Automatic configuration of the current version of Microsoft Access has failed."

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I have been using office 2016 (16.0.9029.2167) for about 8 months. Today Access will not start. I get the error "Automatic configuration of the current version of Microsoft Access has failed. Your database might not function correctly. This can occur if you do not have the necessary permissions to install Microsoft Access on this computer."

Been using Office 2016 for months.
Using it as administrator.
I have changed nothing on the computer deliberately.
When I go into Apps and Features I see that the date against Microsoft Access Pro Plus - en - us is 4th. Mar 2018 which is yesterday in Australia. I did not change/add any features.
I have Windows 10 Pro, Version 1709, OS Build 16299.248

Any help appreciated.

BTW how do I see if an update to Office occurred on 4 Mar 2018?

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2018-03-12T00:45:52+00:00

I say uninstall the latest update because that has always traditionally been the terminology used. Historically, you used the control panel and simply uninstalled an update.

Thanks Daniel

I thought that might be the case but was not 100% sure.
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Anonymous

2018-03-12T00:55:05+00:00

Hi SG

re OpenOffice - yes and Google have equivalents but, and it's a BIG BUT, I have hundreds of 1000s of lines of Access VBA code.

Have you had a close look at Base?
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2018-03-12T01:13:38+00:00

Allow me the slight satisfaction of a teeny weeny little rant...

I have been thinking about this for years (decades now).

Software companies and their employees suffer nil consequences (or so close to nil that it's equivalent to nil) as a result of their actions/errors/bugs - you know what I mean.

Imagine buying a car and signing an equivalent document to what software vendors put out - you know - the one that basically states you shall use our product as is and we are not responsible for any losses incurred.

Imagine Takata using that lame excuse for the deaths caused by their faulty airbag to try and avoid a multi-$billion fine and a multi-million car recall worldwide. The fine was for knowing about the fault/s and covering it up.

No one can imagine that in the car industry and yet we live with the "nil-consequence to s/w vendors" concept without a peep - that I am aware of.

I do not know when this will change - but I am confident it will change - perhaps when s/w starts killing people in autonomous vehicles - perhaps only then will legislators start to focus on what s/w vendors have been getting away with for decades.
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2018-03-12T02:25:24+00:00

The reversion of Office 2016 to Build 9001.2138 worked for me 100% and was very fast and very impressive.

Daniel Pineault on his website page https://www.devhut.net/2018/03/05/ms-access-bug-automatic-configuration-of-the-current-version-of-microsoft-access-has-failed/ gives instructions under the heading of "Uninstall the Latest Office Update" how to revert to Build 9001.2138.

But for me the location of program officec2rclient.exe is not where those instructions point to.

It is located in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun"

Possibly he may have been referring to Office 2013 file location as Microsoft Office 15 refers to Office 2013 (well at least that's my understanding).

Just a heads-up for anyone else searching for it.

Also, Outlook email accounts were not wiped out. So far the only 'loss' is the non-remembrance of the pinned and last-used files when right-clicking the icons in Start on Windows 10.
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2018-03-12T22:15:06+00:00

Tom,

I realize that a switch to a different application suite may not be for everyone.

(That was one of my tasks way back in the early days of I/T - converting stand-alone applications from IBM's OS/360 platform to Honeywell's 6000-series platform.) :-)

Converting thousands of lines of VBA code could be a nuisance. It depends upon whether it is a greater inconvenience to re-write sections of code, or suffer downtime because of an unnecessary application bug.

Microsoft's developers are extremely effective at promoting competing products, especially when they charge us for the delight of being their beta-testers, and then (sometimes) charge us again for fixing their errors. If a competing product is available at no cost to me, AND I have the option to upgrade on my own schedule (after I've reviewed the release notes) then it makes that competing product much more appealing. Also, I can keep the older installation packages on file such that backing up to a previous release is much easier to do than it has been with Microsoft's Windows-10/Office-365 headache scenario.

I have not delved into the advanced features of OpenOffice (Base) - yet. However, the more downtime and inconvenience Microsoft inflicts, the more determined I become in doing so.
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