Cableguy,
I have done that from the beginning. I suspect if there was a problem with registry association then perhaps I should be able to shell to some other file type, but so far trying to open files like pdf, ppt, doc, txt, htm, jpg, mp3 directly via Shell all fail, yet I can click on them in Explorer and their respective application launches and opens the file.
Using the .txt file type as an example, I have the following in the registry:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt >> default = txtfile
so then if I go to txtfile:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\Shell\Open\Command >> default = pword.exe %1
and also
HHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\Shell\OpenDoc\Command >> default = pword.exe -opendoc %1
Could you please verify you have these values?
And you are able to launch, say a text file call test.txt in \temp folder:
Shell("\temp\test.txt") or Shell("\temp\test".txt,"") (figure one of these would work)
and this will open pword with the contents of test.txt?
If so man I'm stumped. Wonder if Resco Explorer could have anything to do with it? It's a pretty powerful Explorer replacement and, lack of any other suspect, wonder if it could be doing some reassigning?
Appreciate the continued assistance!!