I just got a new system (HP wx4600 workstation with windows XP pro), and installed coreldraw on it. It works fine when I doubleclick on a file to open it, but whenever I invoke the common dialog box for opening, finding, or saving a file, it triggers the application recovery manager with the usual boilerplate about the application being unstable and you should save your work. 

 I've tried the usual things: reinstalling, installing the service packs, resetting the workspace, etc. The problem occurs even when I run coreldraw with windows in safe mode, and occurs in photopaint as well as draw. There isn't a problem when I open a file via the recently-used files list; it seems to come from that common dialog box for picking files. 

 Bulling through the ARM (hitting the cancel button) causes it to pop up several times, but I eventually get to a corrupted version of the common dialog box. This is semi-functional, and I can use it to open a file, after which things seem to work OK. 

 I've contacted corel, but I though I'd ask here too, to see if anyone else has ever seen this problem.

 FWIW, I figured out the problem. I use the microsoft "tweakUI" powertoy, and when setting up my new system I unchecked the "remember previously-used filenames" under the common dialogs settings. That caused the common dialog box in CorelDraw & Paint to cough blood and die when invoked. 

 Rechecking that setting fixed the problem. 

Man, you are GREAT!!! After 2 days of shout and almost crashed fingers i found your monologue! And last 3 lines save my day and my marriage!

This solutions works fine for me, after tryng re-install, new video drivers and few kicks. Works for X3 and X4. !!!

10x EKB!!!

It also solved the problem for me. You are a wiz. How did you figure this out?

I checked the checkbox in TweakUI and Corel can be used again. Cool.

How did I figure it out? Dumb luck.

I was going through tweakUI for something else and happened to notice that the checkbox was unchecked. Since the checkbox was part of the dialog for opening and saving files, and since my CorelDraw problem was with the dialog for opening and saving files, and since I couldn't remember why I had unchecked the checkbox, I decided to re-check the checkbox and see what happened. And it WORKED.

Hi, I just signed up only to say a big THANK YOU to user EKB, your solution saved me from losing many hours of my work, thank you again man.

LS

I noticed the same problem with a windows installation CD tweaked by nLite. Here is the registry entry if You not have tweakUI handy.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32]
"NoFileMru"=dword:00000000

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 I like to say thank you to everyone on this thread for their postings. I have been trying to resolve the same problem since July. I contacted Tech Support and they were not helpful at all. The told me that I was the only one with this problem...knew that wasn't true. My "dword" was set to 1. By changing it to 0 problem solved....FINALLY!