Start Free Commander instead of Windows Explorer

[Neil]

Is there a way to change the default program that starts when I want to open a file from another program. For example when I am in Word and go to open a file Windoes Explorer opens and I pick the file. Instead I would like Free Commander to open. Is this possible? My PC is a Vista 64 machine.

[matera]

This has already been covered in another thread. The Open/Save dialogs are not part of Windows Explorer. The Office dialogs are complettely independent of any other common dialog application extensions. Live with it.