Windows Mail file association for *.doc files

[Macungie18062]

I'm running Vista Premium on a new HP Pavilion a6200n.

When I receive an e-mail in Windows Mail (formerly Outlook Express) that has a *.doc file as an attachment, I cannot open the file. I can open all other types of attachments, but not a *.doc. The message is "file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action."

I go into the control panel and get to file associations, and of course every file that has " doc" in it is correctly associated with Microsoft Office Word. I am using Office 2007.

If I elect to save the file to the desktop, I can click on the icon and it opens up using Word 2007.

But I can't do it from from an e-mail in Windows Mail.

Can someone help me with this?

[Macungie18062]

This lead
to a post by Barry Haigh on 10/15/2007 who suggested setting the association
for .doc to Adobe and then resetting it back to MSFT WORD. Tried that and
it works. Go figure!

[Steve]

Hi Macungie18062,

some solution all right...

Glad you are sorted and thanks for getting back to us with the solution,

regards

Steve

[harryjvw]

For me the solution was on site: An utility to unassociate file types in Windows Vista - works for doc files as well.

[Steve]

Hi harryjvw,

thanks for the tip,

much appreciated,

regards

Steve