I thought I would post about a problem I had with Corel Draw. At some point in time, I was no longer able to open a CDR file from File Explore. Even though the file was associated with Corel, when I double-clicked on the file, or right-clicked on the file and used Open With, CorelDraw would open, but it never finished that last step of opening the file. I could double-click on any other type of file and open the associated program. (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Acrobat, etc.) I could only open CDR files while in Corel Draw and using File Open.
While searching the internet, I found lots of people posting problems about the same thing with different versions of Corel Draw, but found no real solution for it. I tried re-associating the CDR to Corel Draw. I tried re-installing CorelDraw and having it Repair any issues. I tried uninstalling CorelDraw, rebooting and re-installing CorelDraw and still the problem persisted. Instead of taking the time to re-install Windows 7 CD, upgrade to Windows 10 and re-install everything else from scratch, I dealt with the problem using Search in File Explore to locate the file location and then going back to Corel Draw and using File Open and moving to that directory to open the file.
A few weeks ago, I could no longer use the Search feature in File Explore. Digging around about that, there were some clues that it was a corrupt Windows Profile.
I created a new local Windows Account and suddenly, ALL of my little CorelDraw quirks disappeared. Search worked again in File Explore and I could double-click a CDR file and it would open the file. All of this time, I had a corrupt Windows User Profile.
So, if you are having some quirky problems with your Corel Draw, before you F8 and reset it to factory settings or re-install everything, try logging into a different or new Windows User Account on that same computer and see if the problems go away.