Excel 2003 as default instead of Excel 2000

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For reasons beyond my technical abilities, I need to have Excel 2003 and
Excel 2000 on my machine. I have an old btrieve application that only works
for me using Excel 2000. Therefore, I keep Excel 2000 on my machine solely
for that purpose. My problem is that Excel 2000 is the default program for
xls files. No matter how many times I try to change it to Excel 2003 in
Explorer/Tools/Folder Options, it still reverts to Excel 2000 when clicking
on XLS files. Any ideas on how to permanently correct this?
 
Try to re-register Excel 2003

Use the full path to the Excel.exe from 2003 in your case

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Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1 ) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
 
I'd try this:

close all instances of excel
windows start button|Run
"x:\yourpathtoxl2003\excel.exe" /regserver

I'm hoping that this tells windows that xl2003 is the excel you want to use.
(It resets the windows registry to factory defaults--and since you pointed at
the drive/folder that contains the excel.exe associated with xl2003...)
 
That worked. Thank you!
Dave Peterson said:
I'd try this:

close all instances of excel
windows start button|Run
"x:\yourpathtoxl2003\excel.exe" /regserver

I'm hoping that this tells windows that xl2003 is the excel you want to
use.
(It resets the windows registry to factory defaults--and since you pointed
at
the drive/folder that contains the excel.exe associated with xl2003...)
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