Prevent preview of word owner files starting with ~$

This goes about the so called temporary owner files, typically made by MSOffice when working on a Word doc.

These files having a name format like "~$name.docx" and they block the preview pane (and Dopus as a whole) because somewhere hidden in the background there is window that opens:

Dopus get's going, only once the "OK" or "Cancel" button is hit.

Very frustrating, because this windows does not show up on the taskbar, and not (or not always, consistency is not a strenght of W11) when hitting alt-tab. I really have to minimize window by window to reveal this bastard window.

It's driving me nuts.

I know the blame is not with Dopus, it's a typical MSFT thing. Is there a way to prevent Dopus (or Windows) to open these type of files?

Help is on its way:

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My bad, seems my installation has been altered to not automatically update...

Great news and work. Thx.