Shift Key Bypass not working

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I experienced a problem I have never seen before yesterday. I used the shift key to bypass the startup form and it didn't work. I have not written any code to prevent the shift key from working and in fact it worked on the same computer a few weeks ago. The computer is on a small network (3 or 4 computers). I believe it has windows xp and office xp although it could have office 2003. I am fairly certain the behavior has something to do with the operating systems, the version of access or the latest service packs installed. The networking folks have made some changes since my last visit and they must have something to do with it. I even tried to open a older version of the frontend and it did not allow bypass either. This behavior is being exhibited on all three of the client machines
Any thoughts on what is going on
Thanks much - JDK

 

[Bruce M. Thompson]

I experienced a problem I have never seen before yesterday. I used the shift

key to bypass the startup form and it didn't work. I have not written any code
to prevent the shift key from working and in fact it worked on the same
computer a few weeks ago. The computer is on a small network (3 or 4
computers). I believe it has windows xp and office xp although it could have
office 2003. I am fairly certain the behavior has something to do with the
operating systems, the version of access or the latest service packs installed.
The networking folks have made some changes since my last visit and they must
have something to do with it. I even tried to open a older version of the
frontend and it did not allow bypass either. This behavior is being exhibited
on all three of the client machines.

Any thoughts on what is going on?

Do these machines have new keyboards? Some of the newer MS keyboards have an
F-Lock key and if F-Lock isn't turned on, you will observe the results that you
describe.