Subj : Win XP :-(
To   : TOM WALKER
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 04:20 pm

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Hello Tom - 

CA>> I get the impression JE is determined to get you to do the
CA>> FIDO reconfigure shuffle. ROTFLMAO 

TW> I get that frequently in other palces too. It just goes
TW> straqight vthought and I ignore it. Some thin kit is a
TW> FUNNY Joke3 and it gives them some sort of Sexual
TW> Gratification to sucker people into Fdisk/format/Reinstal
TW> at any hickup of the OS. 

CA>> I don't have an XP system here right now but on my W2K
CA>> system there are _two_ copies of the wordpad.exe file. One
CA>> appears to be a 'backup' copy which is sort of interesting
CA>> (to me). Both are 185,104 bytes in size. 

TW> The one on my "C" drive, that dosen't work, is 210K(dated
TW> 8/4/04) I have both a 200K(dated 4/23/99) and a 179K(dated
TW> 8/24/96) earlier versions in my Archives from Win95/98 that
TW> appear to work. 

TW> I will be trying one of them and see how it goes. 

Another possible solution would be SFC.EXE (System File
Checker). 

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310747 

From the above URL: 

"System File Checker gives an administrator the ability to scan
all protected files to verify their versions. If System File
Checker discovers that a protected file has been overwritten,
it retrieves the correct version of the file from the cache
folder ( (%Systemroot%\System32\Dllcache) or the Windows
installation source files, and then replaces the incorrect
file. " 

WordPad.exe _is_ one of the "protected system files" therefore
this would explain why I find two identical copies of Wordpad
on my hard drive. :-)

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