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| Originally Posted by derekjn Hey man, I had the EXACT same problem as you, and I finally just fixed it. I hope you are comfortable with your machine, because this fix requires some registry modification. Here is the process:
1. Open regedit. Before you start, it is a good idea to back up your registry by going to File\Export. You can then import this file later should anything adverse happen.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts
(there will be entries for every file extension on your computer here).
3. Open the .doc entry, as well as the .docx entry. There will be sub-entries under these named OpenWithList, and OpenWithProgids.
4. Make all entries in the .doc OpenWithList and OpenWithProgids identical to their .docx counterparts. I deleted all of the ones in the .doc entry and recreated them to match the .docx just to be sure.
5. After doing this, your machine will probably still associate .docs with WordPad, but Word 2007 will now show up in the Open With dialogue after you browse for it (I'm sure you know by now that the path is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE).
Hope this helps! |
Hi,
I have exactly the same problem after loading Office 03 onto a new Vista system. However there is a .doc entry, but no .docx entry in the register. Any suggestions? Interestingly Word 2000 from an old Works Suite disc is okay.
As a side comment, it seems Vista is incompatible with Computer Associates anti-virus, old Diamond View scanners and the Nero/Samsung DVD (software that came with the system out of date, Nero want me to buy more) - all these are apparently okay with XP. The latest Acrobat Reader stops a couple of hours into the download - though v6.0 gets through. Visits to hardware/software sites and numerous e-mail exchanges has produced minimal success with any of the above.
System also often drops to less than 1 kB/s download rate and won't open numerous home pages but will often go direct to a sub-page.
I am about to take the whole show back to the supplier and demand XP or even ME that I had before.
Cheers, Graeme