Question : Access 2010: is there a way to have Access 2010 and it's runtime running on the same PC?

I have an app that will be distributed as an encrypted ACCDE.  The form that will automatically open will be a user login that will determine what other forms will be available on the menus or a switchboard form.

Now here's the problem.
o   If the app is running in runtime mode, all is well--the user gets only the ribbons and menus I want him to have, cannot open the navigation pane, and does not have a files menu that lets him decrypt the DB.

o   However if the user has Access 2010 installed on his machine, he will not run in runtime mode unless I use the /runtime command line switch.  But there is no way to start an encrypted DB from a command line and feed it a password.  It CAN be done via appAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase, but that does not have a /runtime option.  And I don't want the user to have to type in that extra password every time.

So is there some way to do a separate install of the Access 2010 runtime and hook my app to it so I don't need the /runtime?

Answer : Access 2010: is there a way to have Access 2010 and it's runtime running on the same PC?

According to Neha Monga (part of the Access Team), you can do this. See the comments at the end of this blog posting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/access/archive/2010/05/10/download-access-2010-runtime-database-engine-redistributable-and-source-code-control.aspx