Passing 'open' to ShellExecute doesn't open a word file on a specific machine?

This is just a guess, but I suspect Explorer is using NULL where you have "open". This can trigger subtly different behavior if there's anything amiss in the user's registered file associations. For example, if there's a default verb other than "open".

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