However, now on boot up, when Windows tries to start loading, some dll tries to pass an invalid parameter to something.

Ummm...this sounds scarily similar to what happened to my aunt last week. We think she got hit by a Sasser worm variant. The boot process would hang with a message window titled "lsass.exe system error" (that's a small case L, not an upper case I) that said a process was trying to pass an invalid parameter.

eta: a better description of the error message box

Oh crap. That's exactly what's happening, dcp. Is there any way to recover this drive now?

I only have the story second hand, so I don't have all the details. If you can no longer boot off the CD, you probably can't get to the point where you can use Symantec's removal and fix tools. That's what happened to my aunt. She ended up pulling the hard drive, taking it to her son-in-law and installing it as a 2nd drive on his machine, copying what data files she could to CD, then re-formatting the hard drive, re-installing it in her own machine, and re-installing Windows and all her software and data files from scratch.

Before you go that far, keep researching. Perhaps the hivemind has other ideas to try?

Afterwards, get all your patches up to date, and then have a look at Steve Gibson's web site. I like the "ShieldsUP!" and "Leak Test" utilities.

Hi--

Here am I with my daily Access question:

Is it possible to create an empty duplicate of a database. Currently, every class has a database, and, while I'd like to eventually make one registration database, right now I would like to not seem like I am changing everything.

In Filemaker, I could save a "clone, no records" copy of the database. It appears there is no good way to do this in Access. I would prefer not to build 35 identical databases.

Create a new database. Import all the tables from the existing database, but tell Access to import the table design only. (Also, import any queries, reports, forms, etc.)

Thanks!

If there aren't that many tables/records, you could also make a copy of the mdb file in explorer, then open the database, open each table, and delete all the records in each table.

Or you could enter and run the following function

Function cleartables()
Dim tdf As TableDef
DoCmd.SetWarnings False
For Each tdf In CurrentDb().TableDefs
if left(tdf.name,4) <> "msys" then
DoCmd.RunSQL "DELETE FROM " & tdf.name
end if
Next
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
End Function

I forgot how to quote while preserving formatting, which is why nothing in the above is indented....

eta: wait, don't do that, as it deletes system tables too.

eta2: There. All better.

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Thanks tommy and DX. I'm going to get the hang of this soon, I hope!