Windows 11 Upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 10 has made almost all of my PDFs and Word documents unopenable

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How do I get rid of the "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be accessed by the system" error message when trying to open PDFs, and other various issues opening Word documents after migrating to Windows 11? All these files were functional prior to switching to Windows 11. I have tried a few of the most common fixes presented with a Google search on the issue, but none have worked thus far. Note: There is now a little tan cardboard box in front of all the files that existed before the migration to Windows 11. Thank you for any and all help.

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