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Access doesn't close properly. A remaining background process can only be terminated in task manager
- 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
Problem is back in the latest few updates. Just updated to
Microsoft® Access® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2510 Build 16.0.19328.20106) 32-bit
and even just opening and closing Access, without opening a database, and closing Access, leaves it running in background processes.
I have been having the same problem and managed to fix it. I'm on win11 and updated to the latest update, same for office 365 (64bit). Didn't make a difference. I then followed the clear instructions in this link
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd#bkmk_reset_w11
to do a clean boot by disabling processes. I tried to reinstate a few at a time to find a potential culprit but with no success. So I ended up reinstating all of them and hey presto - the problem is solved.
