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Problem setting program defaults
I am having this weird problem where I can't set the program default for .ppt files as Powerpoint.
I have 64-bit Windows 7 and 32-bit Microsoft Office, which I just installed recently to replace the 64 bit version because the latter didn't work with Mendeley Desktop's automatic bibliography function.
For some reason, .ppt files are not automatically opened by Powerpoint. When I double click a .ppt file, I get a message asking me to select a default program. I first tried using POWERPNT.EXE, under Microsoft Office in Program Files (x86), but for some reason that opened up Adobe Acrobat. WTF!? Next I tried entering the same path that comes up for the Powerpoint icon when I type Powerpoint in at the start menu. This caused some weird program entitled "Microsoft Office Component" instead of "Microsoft Office Powerpoint" to appear in the programs menu that I get when selecting program defaults. I set it as the default and then tried double clicking a .ppt file - this yielded the bizarre error "<filename> is not a valid Win32 application". So I guess I did something wrong setting the default. I went back to the "choose default program" menu and tried navigating to POWERPNT.EXE again, but now selecting it does nothing at all - it just keeps displaying the same "Microsoft Office Component" icon and I keep getting the same error when I try to open the file. I went to the "set program defaults" under the control panel and found that the default for everything except .ppt (e.g. .pptx, .pps, etc.) are all set for "Microsoft Powerpoint". But I can't figure out for the life of me how to get .ppt to have the same setting. Help would be much appreciated!