Microsoft KB Archive/226443

= OLE Link Does Not Work After Upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 =

Article ID: 226443

Article Last Modified on 2/26/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q226443





SYMPTOMS
After you upgrade your computer from Microsoft Windows 95 to Windows 2000, the OLE object links may no longer work.

After you update a linked object in Windows 2000 and you open a file that contains the OLE link that was created in Windows 95, no error message appears to indicate that the link is broken. If you examine the link properties, you find that the path points to the Windows 95 location, not the updated Windows 2000 location.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because file locations change during an upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 2000, which can affect OLE links and the documents that contain them.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Keywords: kbbug kbenv kbpending kbprogramming KB226443

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