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App-V: Office 2010 Word "Problem sending command to the program."

If you get this error when trying to double click Word documents do the following, this was taken from the App-V Forums, can't find the original author:

In the console goto File Type Associations.

Find the .doc association and right click it, then click Properties.

Click Advanced.

Click "&Open" and then click edit on the right.

Change the parameters to: /n /dde

Check Use DDE.

Change DDE Message to: [FileOpen("%1")]

Change DDE Application to: winword

Change DDE Topic to: system

Hit OK.

This should apply the same changes to .docx but check it to make sure.