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The Component Checker Tool is designed to help you determine installed version information and diagnose installation issues with the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC). Component Checker runs on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000.

Component Checker is a customizable tool that performs the following tasks:

• Identifies the current MDAC installation on a computer.
• Creates a series of reports about the files identified for the current MDAC installation.
• Removes the current MDAC installation after listing .dll conflicts and identifying programs that reference a given .dll.

MDAC is installed with numerous Microsoft products and also can be redistributed using the redistribution program (mdac_typ.exe) accessible through Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 RTM or from this website (mdac_typ25.exe). This download installs the same version of the MDAC components that are installed by Windows 2000.

Before You Download:

• Attention Windows 95/98 Users: DCOM for Windows must be installed before installing MDAC 2.1x or 2.5x.
  
  DCOM for Windows 95 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom95/dcom1_3.asp
  
  DCOM for Windows 98 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom98/dcom1_3.asp