Problem with WordPad all of a sudden.
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From: - Bobb - on 16 Dec 2009 07:49 <THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message news:n29gi5llnua87860di56o3mekbjbcq370c(a)4ax.com... > It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon > just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across > the top. > That spiral icon IS wordpad. > I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as... WHY did you do that ? "Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user. Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" . Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ? Did that work ? > The box by > "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program > activity" was checked, so I unchecked it and hit OK hoping that > would change things back. But I can't find out whether it would > or not because something keep checking the box again...every time > I uncheck it and close the window, when I open it again it's > checked again. So now what???
From: THEO on 16 Dec 2009 11:16 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:49:31 -0500, "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote: ><THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message >news:n29gi5llnua87860di56o3mekbjbcq370c(a)4ax.com... >> It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon >> just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across >> the top. >> > >That spiral icon IS wordpad. Oh. My bad. It does say it's wordpad, but still does the text only thing. >> I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as... > >WHY did you do that ? >"Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user. >Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" . I've done that a number of times. There are two versions of wordpad on this machine and I've opened it with both of them, and with the same result. Going to File Types, DOC files open with wordpad and there is only the one listing of DOC files which is what these are. >Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ? >Did that work ? I copied a .jpg and pasted it into a paint document, but I still want to be able to go back to doing it with wordpad since I've already got a bunch of wordpad documents that used to work fine and then all of a sudden stopped working. Something changed. How do you put text in paint docs, btw? I tried copying the info from one of the wordpad docs and pasting it into a paint doc to see if that would work, but it didn't. Does wordpad actually display the images that are pasted into it, or is it another program that's responsible for making images look like images in wordpad docs? >> The box by >> "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program >> activity" was checked, so I unchecked it and hit OK hoping that >> would change things back. But I can't find out whether it would >> or not because something keep checking the box again...every time >> I uncheck it and close the window, when I open it again it's >> checked again. So now what??? > > >
From: - Bobb - on 16 Dec 2009 12:04 >><THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message >>news:n29gi5llnua87860di56o3mekbjbcq370c(a)4ax.com... >>> It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon >>> just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across >>> the top. >>> >> >>That spiral icon IS wordpad. > > Oh. My bad. It does say it's wordpad, but still does the text > only thing. > >>> I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as... >> >>WHY did you do that ? >>"Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user. >>Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" . > > I've done that a number of times. There are two versions of > wordpad on this machine WHY ? How do you know ? If they are different - rename "the new one" to wordpad/new for now ( BTW, this is getting too involved to contnue this way) > and I've opened it with both of them, and > with the same result. Going to File Types, DOC files open with > wordpad and there is only the one listing of DOC files which is > what these are. Listen to me - for the next 30 minutes: FORGET that " I used to ..." , forget that "they end in .DOC" Make a file abc.xyz and right-click "OPEN WITH" choose Wordpad. Now "do your thing" /paste etc. Does it work ? YES - great NO = it's not an extension problem ( .doc) it's a program problem and messing with .doc vs xyz vs abc won't change it. > >>Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ? >>Did that work ? > > I copied a .jpg and pasted it into a paint document, not just " a JPG" - to clarify: DO EXACTLY WHAT FAILS IN WORDPAD. Did you ? If you want to copy while online and paste into wordpad, then "copy while online and paste into " PAINT. if same BAD icon then it's not the paint/wordpad program - it's the INPUT. Get it - you need to determine : Is it a bad picture ? ( via IE or java or whatever) or is it a program problem ? > but I still > want to be able to go back to doing it with wordpad since I've > already got a bunch of wordpad documents that used to work fine > and then all of a sudden stopped working. Something changed. How > do you put text in paint docs, btw? > Choose the TEXT icon ( I'm not being funny - you'll see a "big A" - click it for a text box) This isn't an online course - please just try "paint vs wordpad". > I tried copying the info from one of the wordpad docs and pasting > it into a paint doc to see if that would work, but it didn't. > WHAT ? Huh ? > Does wordpad actually display the images that are pasted into it, > or is it another program that's responsible for making images > look like images in wordpad docs? >
From: THEO on 17 Dec 2009 11:13 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:04:04 -0500, "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote: >>><THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message >>>news:n29gi5llnua87860di56o3mekbjbcq370c(a)4ax.com... >>>> It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon >>>> just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across >>>> the top. >>>> >>> >>>That spiral icon IS wordpad. >> >> Oh. My bad. It does say it's wordpad, but still does the text >> only thing. >> >>>> I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as... >>> >>>WHY did you do that ? >>>"Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user. >>>Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" . >> >> I've done that a number of times. There are two versions of >> wordpad on this machine > >WHY ? A lot of the docs I have were made on an older version of Windows like 95 or 98, and when I started using this computer it kept telling me it couldn't open Word something or other documents which they were not, but it wouldn't open them with wordpad. So I copied the version of wordpad I had from the old computer and used it to open them with. It worked fine for years until all of a sudden. >How do you know ? Because it gives me two choices when I select open with. They have different icons. >If they are different - rename "the new one" to wordpad/new for now >( BTW, this is getting too involved to contnue this way) > >> and I've opened it with both of them, and >> with the same result. Going to File Types, DOC files open with >> wordpad and there is only the one listing of DOC files which is >> what these are. > >Listen to me - for the next 30 minutes: FORGET that " I used to ..." , >forget that "they end in .DOC" > >Make a file abc.xyz and right-click "OPEN WITH" >choose Wordpad. Now "do your thing" /paste etc. >Does it work ? >YES - great >NO = it's not an extension problem ( .doc) it's a program problem and >messing with .doc vs xyz vs abc won't change it. Both versions of wordpad are 5.1. The version that was on this pc wouldn't open the old .docs I loaded into it, so I put in the older version of wordpad from my old computer and it worked great until recently. Then it quit working for all of the docs it had been opening fine before. I tried making new docs with the version I loaded from the old pc and now it keeps having "unexpected" problems or just fails to respond leaving the hour glass icon hanging around, and sometimes it gives this messag: You are about to save the document in a Text-Only format, which will remove all formatting. Are you sure you want to do this? I made docs with the new version and it seems to work fine, but it won't open the docs made with the version from my old pc. Neither will the old version any more, but it had been working fine. At the moment it looks like I can make docs as I have been with the version that was already on here, but can't use the older ones made with the older version any more. I don't want to lose them. Why would wordpad not open wordpad docs to begin with? I used wordpad to make things like that specifically trying to avoid this sort of problem because every pc has wordpad, so it should always be easy to few my docs. But this pc said it couldn't open Word...whatever so I loaded wordpad from my old pc and opened them with that and it worked fine for year up until now. All of this is EXACTLY what I was deliberately trying to avoid by using a common program like wordpad to make docs with pic in them... >>>Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ? >>>Did that work ? >> >> I copied a .jpg and pasted it into a paint document, > >not just " a JPG" - to clarify: >DO EXACTLY WHAT FAILS IN WORDPAD. >Did you ? >If you want to copy while online and paste into wordpad, then "copy while >online and paste into " PAINT. if same BAD icon then it's not the >paint/wordpad program - it's the INPUT. >Get it - you need to determine : >Is it a bad picture ? ( via IE or java or whatever) >or is it a program problem ? > >> but I still >> want to be able to go back to doing it with wordpad since I've >> already got a bunch of wordpad documents that used to work fine >> and then all of a sudden stopped working. Something changed. How >> do you put text in paint docs, btw? >> >Choose the TEXT icon ( I'm not being funny - you'll see a "big A" - click it >for a text box) >This isn't an online course - please just try "paint vs wordpad". > >> I tried copying the info from one of the wordpad docs and pasting >> it into a paint doc to see if that would work, but it didn't. >> >WHAT ? Huh ? I opened one of the docs that used to work fine but now does not and copied everything from it, then pasted it into a paint doc to see if that would somehow end up showing it like it used to, but it didn't. I tried the same thing loading it into a doc made with the later version of wordpad and that didn't work either. I hate to lose all those old docs all of a sudden for no apparent reason, but so far that's what looks like is going to happen...exactly what I've been trying to avoid since before I ever had the first problem with it... >> Does wordpad actually display the images that are pasted into it, >> or is it another program that's responsible for making images >> look like images in wordpad docs? >>
From: GlowingBlueMist on 17 Dec 2009 13:11 THEO(a)TO. wrote: > For years I've been taking .jpgs and pasting them in WordPad > documents and thought it was a great thing to be able to do it. > I've done hundreds of documents like that and never had any > problems. But now all of a sudden they don't show the pictures or > even the text anymore, but instead it's just a bunch of symbols > like y's with dots over them and rectangular blocks, etc... Can > anyone explain what happened and how to make it work the way it > did before? I don't know what was modified or upgraded on your system but you tried opening them using a freeware copy of Open Office? You can find it here: http://www.openoffice.org/. Might be an alternative way to keep your "old" files workable.
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