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Access doesn't close properly. A remaining background process can only be terminated in task manager
Since yesterday I noticed that in all my Access databases there is a problem when I close them. When I close a database, it leaves a background process that can only be terminated in Task Mana...
- Yes, here also the update available (Europe). Tested en fix the problem. Trusted Location not necessary any more. But I highly recommend it. Otherwise you will have problem starting from April. MS is blocking marcos. Check https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/helping-users-stay-safe-blocking-internet-macros-by-default-in/ba-p/3071805
Karl: Special thanks to you for drawing the many aspects of this problem together and initiating a solution. Also, a tip of the hat to lsadogs and the many others who have helped trace the source to something reproducible. Let's hope this is the lead, MS needs to put a stake in the heart of the zombie so never emerges in any of the other circumstances Karl has curated. Got my fingers crossed!
Just for clarification, for complicated reasons, my replies are listed as @Isladogs or @MendipDataSystems depending on which workstation I reply on! I'd love to be able to sort that out!
Karl wrote the article based on the evidence of various people here and other forums. The most important thing was being able to reliably reproduce at least one cause - in this case the Ease Of Access text cursor indicator which was first reported by CampDirector and later confirmed by several of us