File association problem - W95

[JohnBF]

<img src=/S/help.gif border=0 alt=help width=23 height=15>I have fouled up my file associations with Excel files in some weird way.

When I double click on an Excel file from File Explorer, a new instance of Excel is loaded, but the file is not loaded into Excel, and Explorer gives me a message "Cannot find the file "<pathfilename.ext>" (or one of it's components). The system cannot find the file specified. Make sure the path and filename are correct, and that all required libraries are available."

When I double click an Excel file attached to an Outlook e-mail message, a new instance of Excel is loaded, but the file is not loaded into Excel, and Outlook gives me a message that: "The system cannot find the file specified."

No other file associations have been munged. Previously a new instance of Excel would not load when I selected an Excel file in the manner described above. This behavior may have started when I ran the "crogram filesmicrosoft officeofficeexcel.exe" /Regserver command at the Run prompt a couple of days ago. Re-running the ...excel.exe /regserver command and running RegClean does not fix the behavior.

Suggestions for a fix?

[LegareColeman]

You might try going to the Run command on the Start menu and entering the following:

<pre>"C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOfficeExcel.exe" /Regserver
</pre>

[JohnBF]

No luck. Thanks.

[Leif]

A couple of posts from the Excel forum:

and <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=xl&Number=63928&page=&view= &sb=&o=&vc=1>Post # 63928

[JohnBF]

Thanks, Leif. Tools, Options, General, Ignore Other Applications mysteriously got checked; unchecking it solved the problem. Didn't even know the option existed!