Run-time Error '1004' - Method 'Open' of object 'Workbooks' failed

Question

OK, so far I\'ve uninstalled & re installed Office-2010 3 to 4 times, done hours of research for 3 days with no success. I started getting this error either from Vbscript or

Answer 1

Putting an answer here for others like myself who have this issue and the normal solutions don't work.

Another potential cause of this is corrupted temporary files. I think it may only apply if the file you are trying to open is on a network drive or other remote host.

Anyway, try wiping your temp folder (as in the one you get to if you type %temp% into Windows Explorer) then restarting the computer.