Problem with WordPad all of a sudden.
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From: - Bobb - on 23 Dec 2009 18:50 I've never used/heard of LView, SO go into LView and choose HELP You might find to open a pictur standalone you have to type soemthing special like " LView.exe / openwithxxxx". For the time being - make it so the default for JPG is , picture viewer, paint, etc so you can at least work with /view jpgs. right click a JPG file "open with " select CHOOSE PROGRAM select the program you want, check the ALWAYS USE box and be done with it do NOT use Lview for automating anything until you find out if you CAN. <THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message news:sei4j5tcvfig2qat9amhvchp6rv83iheo3(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:20:02 -0500, "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> > wrote: > >>> the message: >>> ". . .jpg is not a valid Win32 application " >> >>That's true - jpg is NOT an application . >> >>Tells me that YOU have associated filetype of .jpg with a PROGRAM called >>" >>jpg " >>THAT is WRONG , the Filename should be ... 'MSpaint.exe ', 'Windows >>Picture >>viewer ', some PROGRAM. >>SO: >> >>#1 Go to another PC that works normally and check filetype >>.jpg >>and >>.doc >>and compare the 2 pc's - that's your problem. >> >>.jpg files OK now ? > > On this computer in File Types it says they should open with > LView, but they don't have an LView icon. Instead they have a > Netscape icon of some sort. > > I can open LView and then open .jpgs and .jpegs from there, but I > can't select Open With and then select LView and get them to open > that way. Trying it that way just brings up the ". . .jpg is not > a valid Win32 application " message. > >>Yes = continue >>No = go to step #1 >> >>> I've tried opening them on later model computers and got a >>> message like: can not open word for windows ... documents, or >>> something like that. They are and always have been wordpad >>> documents. >> >>The later PC has an association between .doc and WORD aka 'Microsoft word >>for windows' ( the default for .doc files for years) >> >>I still do not know: so tell me - yes or no - ALL of these .doc files >>that >>don't work now - are they all PICTURES ? > > Not all of them have pictures, but most do. Now I've learned that > I can open one of the screwed up docs, paste a .jpg into it and > save it, and when I re-open it there's the screwed up mess AND > the new .jpg I pasted in. > >>If in fact the version of wordpad that you used was specific to Windows 98 > > So does each version of Windows have a different version of > wordpad that doesn't work well with different versions of > Windows? If they did that why wouldn't they at least make it so > newer versions can read things made with older versions, even > though they couldn't go back in time to make older versions able > to read things made with newer versions? > >>( for example) , AND you deleted it from the PC, can you put on a floppy >>and >>try one on a Win98 pc ? >> >>That's enough for now. >>Try it and let us know.
From: - Bobb - on 23 Dec 2009 19:13
Also, it's been such a long time ago that this thread started with WordPad /" ..doc" questions. How about considering this thread closed and if jpg questions, start a new one. As for what happened to your wordpad - I even forget the deatils - you said you copied it from an old PC ? I think what happened to you was some update saw .doc files and ran an update related to WORD and it messed with your registry - changing your OLD references to wordpad. Ask someone locally who can sit in front of the PC to take a look. It's too tedious for us to explain every click and for you to answer every click . Someone sitting there can probably figure it out in 5 minutes whereas doing it they way we've tried ... 'something gets overlooked/not mentioned , and go down a rathole. "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> wrote in message news:hguabi$h3d$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > I've never used/heard of LView, SO > > go into LView and choose HELP > > You might find to open a pictur standalone you have to type soemthing > special > like " LView.exe / openwithxxxx". > > For the time being - make it so the default for JPG is , picture viewer, > paint, etc so you can at least work with /view jpgs. > > right click a JPG file > "open with " select CHOOSE PROGRAM > select the program you want, check the ALWAYS USE box and be done with it > > do NOT use Lview for automating anything until you find out if you CAN. > > > > <THEO(a)TO.> wrote in message > news:sei4j5tcvfig2qat9amhvchp6rv83iheo3(a)4ax.com... >> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:20:02 -0500, "- Bobb -" <bobb(a)noemail.123> >> wrote: >> >>>> the message: >>>> ". . .jpg is not a valid Win32 application " >>> >>>That's true - jpg is NOT an application . >>> >>>Tells me that YOU have associated filetype of .jpg with a PROGRAM called >>>" >>>jpg " >>>THAT is WRONG , the Filename should be ... 'MSpaint.exe ', 'Windows >>>Picture >>>viewer ', some PROGRAM. >>>SO: >>> >>>#1 Go to another PC that works normally and check filetype >>>.jpg >>>and >>>.doc >>>and compare the 2 pc's - that's your problem. >>> >>>.jpg files OK now ? >> >> On this computer in File Types it says they should open with >> LView, but they don't have an LView icon. Instead they have a >> Netscape icon of some sort. >> >> I can open LView and then open .jpgs and .jpegs from there, but I >> can't select Open With and then select LView and get them to open >> that way. Trying it that way just brings up the ". . .jpg is not >> a valid Win32 application " message. >> >>>Yes = continue >>>No = go to step #1 >>> >>>> I've tried opening them on later model computers and got a >>>> message like: can not open word for windows ... documents, or >>>> something like that. They are and always have been wordpad >>>> documents. >>> >>>The later PC has an association between .doc and WORD aka 'Microsoft word >>>for windows' ( the default for .doc files for years) >>> >>>I still do not know: so tell me - yes or no - ALL of these .doc files >>>that >>>don't work now - are they all PICTURES ? >> >> Not all of them have pictures, but most do. Now I've learned that >> I can open one of the screwed up docs, paste a .jpg into it and >> save it, and when I re-open it there's the screwed up mess AND >> the new .jpg I pasted in. >> >>>If in fact the version of wordpad that you used was specific to Windows >>>98 >> >> So does each version of Windows have a different version of >> wordpad that doesn't work well with different versions of >> Windows? If they did that why wouldn't they at least make it so >> newer versions can read things made with older versions, even >> though they couldn't go back in time to make older versions able >> to read things made with newer versions? >> >>>( for example) , AND you deleted it from the PC, can you put on a floppy >>>and >>>try one on a Win98 pc ? >>> >>>That's enough for now. >>>Try it and let us know. > > |