Turning off the 'Display Database Window' option in Tools>Startup works until any form is maximised, then the window is shown with all the DB objects (window is maximised). This looks messy especially when users close the application and wait for it to compact.

What am I missing?

I can't reproduce this with Access 200, this is what I did:
1) Create blank database
2) Create simple table
3) Create simple form based on table
4) Set form to display on startup
5) Uncheck show db window
6) Close DB
7) Re-open, form is shown
8) Maximise form



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Joe

Using Access XP on Windows XP, and same behaviour on similar systems.
Can't seem to find any reference of this in Google or Microsoft support, but surely I'm not the only one experiencing this?

Any suggestions to try Joe?

In the past, I tried setting the form to open using Joe's steps in Access XP and the database acted strangely. Things didn't maximize right and windows were not behaving. So I did one thing differently.

Joe's Step 4 can be done via TOOLS > STARTUP as he instructs. There's a field there to specify a form to open upon the database openning (Display Form/Page). That caused weird behavior for me in XP. So I chose not to open the form that way. I left that option as none. I UNchecked "Display Database Window" but to get the form to open, I made an Autoexec macro that opened the form and maximized it.

This worked and the dB now works normally. It could be an XP glitch that's causing Bradles' dB (and formally mine) to act strangely.


Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division

Thanks for the tip Serrano but no dice.
I may have to put up with this small glitch, as it poses no performance problems.
:-(

I have absolutely no idea why that would be happening, but if you made all your forms maximize, modal and popup, it should get rid of that problem

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