Click Yes or OK to confirm that you want to remove the program.If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program. In the list of currently installed programs, select “Microsoft Access database engine 2016” and then click Remove or Add/Remove.On the Start menu, point to Settings and then click Control Panel.To remove the download file itself, delete the file AccessDatabaseEngine.exe If you are an application developer using ODBC to connect to Microsoft Office Access data, set the Connection String to “Driver= DBQ=path to xls/xlsx/xlsm/xlsb file”.If you are connecting to Microsoft Office Excel data, add the appropriate Extended Properties of the OLEDB connection string based on the Excel file type:įile Type (extension) Extended PropertiesĮxcel 97-2003 Workbook (.xls) "Excel 8.0"Įxcel Macro-enabled workbook (.xlsm) "Excel 12.0 Macro"Įxcel Non-XML binary workbook (.xlsb) "Excel 12.0" Double-click the AccessDatabaseEngine.
To install this download: Download the file by clicking the Download button and saving the file to your hard disk.
Note: Before installing this download, you must first remove any previous versions of the Access Database Engine from your computer by using Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Instead perform a /quiet install of these components from command line.