Double clicking Word Docs in Explorer Error

[L2driver]

I'm running Office 2007 Standard on Windows 7 RC. When I try to open a Word
document by double clicking the file in explorer the computer generates an
error message "There was a problem sending the command to the program" and
"Microsoft office has stopped working, checking for a solution". I had the
same problem in Vista.

If I open the document from Word by starting Word first everything works
fine. Had a look through all the threads but nothing seems to match my
problem, Ive tried deleteing the Data key in regedit and renaming the
Normal.dot file but no joy. Help!

 

[ebicky2000]

You are not alone,
I am running the same setup and my word 2007 symptoms are "identical" to
yours. Problem just started to occur a couple of days ago.

Looking for a registry key solution, maybe something with the "dde" keys.
I looked in the registry under the following two locations:
Microsoft Office Word-shell-edit-command
Winword.exe-shell-edit-command

The command key has the following:
Default - "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde
command - vUpAVX!!!!!!!!!MKKSkWORDFiles>tW{~$4Q]c@5d1`,xaTO5 /n /dde

The ddeexec key has the following:
Default - [REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")]

I thought there might be a "%1" addition to place onto the command/default
key.
How are your settings?