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I have 64-bit Windows 7 and have been trying to use my old copy of Microsoft Office 2007, which MS's W7 Compatibility Centre says should work OK. Up to a point. When I click on an Excel file, it fails to open the Excel application. OK if I manually open Excel and then browse for the file, but this could prove tiresome. I found that I had loaded Office 2007 into the Program Files (x86) folder. When I right click on my Excel file, go to 'Open With', and browse for a program to open the file, it's not there. This is because 'Open With' gives you Program Files to browse, not Program Files (x86). I boldly moved the Office suite from PFx86 to plain PF. Now Excel shows in the 'Open With' list and I can point my file in the right direction. Everything now back to normal. Hope this helps!