Documents and folders to open in windows media player

After that my computer did a windows update and restarted all my folders and documents are open in windows media player.  How can I change that.  I am running vista.

I checked everything as above and under default Microsoft word documents are open in Media Player.

Right-click in one of the documents > open with > select MS Office Word > near the bottom, place a check mark to "Always use the selected program to open this type of file" > OK when finished.

If you have not opened with in your right click context menu, use this tutorial to add:

http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/52833-open-context-menu-item-Add-Remove.html

The tutorial applies to both Windows 7 and Vista.

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