Over the weekend, I had a hard drive failure on my business' POS & database computer. We have an Orbit Metrologic scanner hooked up to it via USB, and it's emulated for comm port COM3. The scanner works, and I was able to restore our database completely, except that our scanner is not able to communicate with Access 2010. Before we ran the 32-bit version of access, however this time I've downloaded the 64-bit version of access, seeing as we have a 64-bit machine.
Things I have done:
- Registered MSCOMM32.ocx with Regsvr32 in SysWOW64 (the same one from the failed hard drive, I was able to boot to a linux live CD and extract it)
- Disabled the MSCOMM32.ocx Windows 7 Kill-Bit using ADM.exe
- Enabled all ActiveX controls to run without question in the trust center
- Registered MSCOMM32.ocx in the VBA References
Can MSCOMM32.ocx work in a 64-bit enviornment? Or will I have to revert to 32-bit access?
The solution to this particular problem was solved by uninstalling the 64-bit version of Microsoft Access and re-installing the 32-bit version. The control was recognized right away.