Opening documents in Word

Since yesterday morning, my workstation refuses to open any documents from SharePoint directly to Word or Excel. SharePoint is throwing me a message saying I don't have any compatible software installed, which I have (Office 2010). The weird thing is that
this was working fine untill a couple of days ago, and now it suddenly broke. Of course I didn't change anything :) Perhaps something with an update or so, I don't know.
I already tried repairing my Office installation, doesn't fix it. Also checked security settings in IE: the site is in the local intranet sites and the security for that zone is low (which enables activex and all that stuff). So what more can I do to get
this right again? Really annoying :(
MCTS Web Application Development, SharePoint enthousiast.

We have a couple of SharePoint sites at my company, and lately I've noticed that I can't open any Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) from IE, Chrome, or Firefox (all latest versions) on my 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise PC running Office 2013 (365 ProPlus).
Word and Excel open using the web apps just fine, but there's a problem anytime I try to open the files in their desktop applications. Here's the message from IE when I try to open an Excel file:
(Sorry, we couldn't open <url>.)
Followed by this:
(Microsoft Excel cannot access the file <url>. There are several possible reasons: The file name does not exist, the file is being used by another program, the workbook you are trying to save has the same name as a currently open workbook.)
I've tried it on a different PC (my Windows 8.1 Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet) running Office 2013 (365 Family), and it works just fine, so I don't think it's the SharePoint site but rather some setting with my PC. I'm going to try repairing Office, but I'm wondering
if you have any other ideas. Thanks!
- Greg

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