Office 2003 File Associations Still Exist After Uninstall

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by remedy1978, Aug 27, 2009.

  1. remedy1978

    remedy1978 Bit poster

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    Currently I am running Parallels 4.0 with Leopard. Originally I had Office 2007 installed on my XP VM then installed Office 2003. Now after uninstalling Office 2003, Parallels and OS X still think Office 2003 exists because it is one of the choices for opening Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

    Any ideas on how to completely remove Office 2003 associations?

    Thanks!
     
  2. TechSavvySam

    TechSavvySam Bit poster

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    I have a similar issue:

    I have a Windows 7 VM on Parallels 8 current release.

    I had Office 2003 installed

    I uninstalled Office 2003 and installed Office 2010

    When I do a "get info" on a office file such as a DOCX, or ICS, etc. and I click on Open with I still have the option for the uninstalled Office 2003 app and sometimes the Office 2010 option is completely missing (even if I fix the association and path to the program in windows 7).

    Where is Parallels and OS X getting this info from? I need to go clean them up but I have no idea where the list of programs is stored on OS X. I fixed the association for ICS on Windows and so when I click on it in Windows Explorer it works fine, but when I click on it in OS X Finder, it still tries to open outlook 2003 which doesn't exist any more. This tells me OS X/Parallels is not using the windows associations directly but instead may have copied them at some point and now they are corrupt/invalid and I can't figure out how to delete them.
     

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