Outlook 2013 can't preview Office files

I run Office 2013 Home and Business. I've just realized that Outlook 2013 refuses to preview Word, Excel and Powerpoint files saying "This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer"... and so on. After downloading
the file I won't open either.
I finally came across solution allowing to open such downloaded files by modifying (=disabling) all Protected View components in Office apps, which in fact seems ridiculous for me as I used to run Office 2010 and the earlier solution (a bar with warning about
opening a file from Internet) was just fine to live with. What's the purpose of this feature if one has to disable it to have Office apps working?!
Anyway, I'm able to open those files now.
However, modifying the Protected View options in other Office apps hasn't made Outlook preview working - how can I turn it back again?

Does anyone know where these reg entries for file extensions can be found?
Close outlook, start regedit
Navigate to here HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\preview handlers
Making sure to back up the contents of course
Delete the key for Microsoft Word previewer, etc.
Restart outlook, preview a word doc you should now get a message “you should only preview files from a trustworthy source”

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