title: Microsoft Access 2010 on Windows 7 64-bit, and MSCOMM32.ocx
body: <p>Over the weekend, I had a hard drive failure on my business' POS &amp; 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.</p>
  
  <p>Things I have done:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>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)</li>
  <li>Disabled the MSCOMM32.ocx Windows 7 Kill-Bit using <a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/acm.html" rel="nofollow">ADM.exe</a></li>
  <li>Enabled all ActiveX controls to run without question in the trust center</li>
  <li>Registered MSCOMM32.ocx in the VBA References</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Can MSCOMM32.ocx work in a 64-bit enviornment? Or will I have to revert to 32-bit access?</p>