Excel 2007: "There was a problem sending the command to the program"

It took me ages to find this solution so I thought I would post it here. If you ever get "There was a problem sending the command to the program" when you launch a shortcut in Windows, try this fix from Josh Davis: http://www.interworks.com/blogs/jdavis/2010/02/01/excel-2007-there-was-problem-sending-command-program?page=29