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Default W. Explorer Opens Wordpad not Word

I'm on a new-to-me laptop. The OS is XP, Office is 2000. When I try to open a doc file with Windows Explorer, WordPad opens instead of Word. And it usually has problems with the file. I run the same software versions on my desktop with no problem. The document opens correctly if I open with Word. This happens on any Word document. I don't see an options in Explorer to make the default program for a .doc file Word.

What Happened? Or, more importantly, how to I fix this so Word is the default program for .doc files?

Thanks!

Alex
 
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