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PING - Mart, Noel, Alan (and Mike)
Ref: Wordpad Problem thread started 1/28/2005 17:16.
Mart, I finally got around to trying your last suggestion: snipHowever, as a final WAG, try extracting a fresh copy of wordpad.exe from WIN_17.CAB in the Widows\Options folder and put it on your desktop. Then try running it from there.snip I attempted to go by KB 129605 How To Extract Original Compressed Windows Files but as happens too often for me I found the instructions confusing. Luckily I had a printout handy of a Mike Maltby 12/08/2004 06:11 post to the windowsme.systemtools that was much clearer and I quote: "use MSConfig (Start I Run and enter MSConfig in the box and click OK). On the General tab you will find "Extract File...", click this, enter the name of the file to be extracted and click OK. If asked enter the location of the Win Me cab files (C:\Windows\Options\Cabs or C:\Windows\Options\lnstall or in your case the folder on your CD, H:\Wingx) and the location where you want to place the extracted file and then click OK." I specified Desktop as the location to place the extracted file, double clicked the wordpad.exe on the Desktop and Wordpad opened right up. So Mart, your final WAG was a real winner. Thanks to all that helped me with this problem. Now I plan on deleting wordpad/wordpad.exe from all locations (except current Desktop), creating a C:\WINDOWS\Wordpad folder and moving the wordpad.exe from the Desktop to this new folder. Is this a correct thing to do?? P.S. Is this PING a proper way to provide feedback to a thread several days old? |
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