Not sure if this has already been posed, but I recently encountered that same "wpwin8.exe generated errors" problem.
I resolved it by exporting the COREL key in HKCU registry hive of a known good user profile... and importing into the problem child. WP came up this time as expected.
Also on...
The locations you referenced are generally for shortcut (.lnk) files only.
On mine, the culprit was in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Startup' for Word... and 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\XLStart' for Excel.
The files were pdfmaker.dot and pdfmaker.xls, respectively.
Issue caused by not selecting the OfficeXP add-in during Acrobat 5.0 installation & later installing the Acrobat patch to 5.0.5.
Resolved by removing the PDFmaker.dot from the 'startup' folder in the OfficeXP client install location.
Confirm the add-in is no longer listed within Word, and you...
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