[Word won't open .doc files in windows explorer now...]

that was one of the first things I tried... I just tried to run a whole windows repair. I have just uninstalled office xp and installed office 2003... anymore ideas?

 

Go to Control Panel > Folder Options > Files Type (or Type Files, i don't know)

 

Scroll down until you find .doc type file and select it.

 

Press Advanced button

 

Check if Open is the default option (written in bold)

Note: I own an italian version of WinXP, so what said above may

sound a little different for you, hope this can make some sense

[Word won't open .doc files in windows explorer now...]

I have completely uninstalled MS office, and reinstalled it to no avail. please any other help would be great.... I don't know what to do and again this is a very important client.

 

The best advice is to grab the Microsoft Office installation CD's then run the Repair function (the uninstaller and the installer should give that option). The Repair function will fix all the file types etc., in a very short amount of time.

 

After you've repaired MS Office:

1. Run CCleaner

2. Click Cleaner -> Applications, then look under the Applications list

3. Untick MS Office

 

Should look something like this:

[Word won't open .doc files in windows explorer now...]

okay so I have a P4 1.8 GHz 512RAM computer. XP Pro in a domain. I was just doing some system cleanup (for our Mayor no less) and I finish running CCleaner, and leave the computer. 30 seconds later he comes and gets me and says that he can't open his word documents.

 

He can open files from file>open in word and it works perfectly fine. If he tries it from windows explorer (meaning he just double clicks on a .doc file) it opens word, but it doesn't open the file. If he right clicks on a .txt file and says open with word it opens fine... I am at a loss I have tried messing with the file extention .doc to no avail, any help would be great.