Uninstalling Word Viewer 97 Doesn't Restore WordPad Associations

 Last reviewed: July 31, 1997
Article ID: Q165910
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word Viewer 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

If you install Word Viewer 97 and then uninstall it, after the uninstall, files that end in .doc will not be re-associated with Windows WordPad.

CAUSE

When you remove Word Viewer, the registry key that associates .doc files with an application is removed rather than re-associated with Windows WordPad.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use the following steps:

  1. Start WordPad. This will re-create the registry entry and re-associate .doc files with WordPad.

  2. Double-click a file that has a .doc extension. The Open With dialog box will be displayed.
3. Click WordPad as the application to open .doc files and enable the 
   "Always use this program to open this type of file" check box.
   
   The correct registry entry will be written and WordPad will be used to open
   all files with the .doc extension.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. Keywords : word97 kbusage

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Last reviewed: July 31, 1997
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