When opening previous office version excel files it saves instead of opening

Hi there,
Recently I installed Office 2013 and deinstalled the previous version Office XP ( aka Office 2002 ).
I tried to open some xlsm files but when I open it by double click on them it opens a "save as" screen... It is an XLSM file that is located on my desktop.
When I open first excel and then go to file --> open and open the file, it opens just fine.
I want to open it by double clicking it and not like this.
Word Documents don't have this issue and open just fine.
I also made sure that the extensions are connected to the appropriate application but it still doesn´t work.
It just shows a save as screen as stated earlier and doesn´t open the file in Excel.
Could anyone please inform me of what I am missing=
Andre

Hi Andre,
Only the XLSM file created in previous office version excel can't be opened or all of them can't be opened?
I think it should be a file association problem ,please refer to the thread below:
http://superuser.com/questions/367913/why-cant-i-associate-files-with-excel-after-upgrading-to-2010
Best Regards,
Wind Zhang

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