Eddy
5
Set that key back to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\18]
“ShellExecute”=“calc.exe” That is a normal key and should be there. The problem is finding out what is calling that registry entry. Let’s start with 2 log files I mentioned. Do you see any error or warning in there? If so let us know. Tell the things I pointed out as shown in the picture. There is ofcourse the option to reinstall everything or the in-place repair. But they are a bit drastic to do at this point. Let’s see if we can solve it in anotherway.
Personally I was lucky when installing SP2. Only trouble I had was that when I started Excel, windows was showing Excel and everything worked, but at the same time it started the installation of Publisher which I already had installed and was perfevtly working. Strange things happen to many people who install SP2 