James Egan wrote:

> Hmm. I wonder why that is?

I might have applied a registry tweak some time ago when I hardened the
box. Autorun is disabled as well.

Essentially, if I click on a file to open that windows doesn't know the
extension of, it asks what to do with it. I'm pretty sure its a
registry key I changed.

> Which version of MS Word did you use? With Word 2000 it opens
> correctly (with a wrong extension) on both win9x and winxp.

Word 2000. The later versions are too much like an html editor to me.

Regards,
Dustin Cook
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