ACC2000: Error When You Try to Use a Shortcut to Open a Password-Protected Project

If you create a shortcut in Microsoft Windows that points to a password-protected Visual Basic Editor project, you may receive the follow incorrect error message when you double-click the shortcut: Instead, the error should indicate that a Visual Basic Editor password is needed before you can open the module. However, you cannot pass a Visual Basic Editor password through the shortcut.

Use Access to open the database. When the database is open, press ALT+F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor. You then receive a prompt for the Visual Basic Editor password.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1.	Create a new database.
2.	Create a new module, and then save it.
3.	On the Tools menu, click DatabaseName Properties, click the Protection tab, click to select the Lock Project for Viewing check box, type (and confirm) a password, and then click OK.
4.	Close the Visual Basic Editor. In the Access database window, drag the module to the desktop to create a shortcut to the module.
5.	Quit Microsoft Access.
6.	Double-click the shortcut. Note that Access displays the incorrect error message described in the "Symptoms" section of this article.