Re: Loose File Association with Limited User Account with Office 2

Hi Jay,

Thanks for responding to my question. I followed the instructions you
provided. Unfortunately, it did not solve my problem. I still have Word
default to Wordpad whenever I logon with my limited user account. Do you
please have any other ideas for me? Thanks.

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Fubdap


"Jay Freedman" wrote:

fubdap wrote:
I installed Enterprise Office 2007 on Wnxp sp2. The installation went
smoothly. I can see all my previous office data (word, excel, etc).
In windows explorer, when I click on word or excel, the appropriate
application launches. However, when I switch to my limited user
account, I loose the file association. All my word documents are in
WordPad. From windows explorer, when I click on them, it launches
WordPad. I have tried the "open with" option. It will open with
word 2007, but it will not change the file association. When I give
the limited user account admin privileges, everything is fine. But
when I take away the admin privilege, I am back to square one. I am
guessing this will require registry setting, but I do not know how to
go about it. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.

In the limited account, open the Start > Run box and enter

winword /r

(see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm).

If that doesn't work, then the limited account doesn't have permission to
write to the necessary parts of the registry. The general procedure in the
Workaround section of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884202 would be needed
to grant the permission temporarily. Not knowing the whole list of registry
keys that need to be changed by the registration command, I think you'll
have to give Full Control permission to access at least the entire
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE sections instead of the keys listed
in step 3. Run the command above instead of step 7, then remove the Full
Control permissions.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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