Lost my Word Pad

[Guest Joe Bloggs]

During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad

from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.

My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.

 

So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,

or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)

 

Many thanks

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Lost my Word Pad

 

 

"Joe Bloggs" <alcoNOSPAM@bigfoot.com> wrote in message

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> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad

> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my

> accessories. My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP

> SP3.

>

> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad

> back, or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)

>

> Many thanks

 

Here are a couple of places where it usually resides:

- c:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386

- d:\i386 (your WinXP installation CD)

 

If it is on the CD then you probably need to expand it.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Lost my Word Pad

 

If you have Service pack 2, it was updated then so the files would be

available there. Try using Agent Ransack (free file search tool) and

look for "Wordpad"

 

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

 

 

 

Joe Bloggs wrote:

> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad

> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.

> My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.

>

> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,

> or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)

>

> Many thanks

>

>

[Guest Rey Santos]

RE: Lost my Word Pad

 

Unless you actually deleted the file "wordpad.exe" from the system folder on

your hard drive its impossible to uninstall it through the normal process of

removing softare. If you accidentally deleted the shortcut from the start

menu, the easiest way of finding out if the program is still there is to go

to the RUN menu and type in "wordpad". If it comes up, then you know that you

only deleted the shortcut and not the whole program. If you still need the

program and you want to restore it without reinstalling windows, copy and

paste the following into the Start > Run box:

 

%systemroot%\inf\sysoc.inf

 

When the sysoc.inf file opens in Notepad, find the

following line:

 

MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7

 

Now take out the HIDE, so that the line reads:

 

MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,,7

 

Click File menu > Save.

 

Now go to Control Panel / Add\Remove Programs

Select the 'Add\Remove Windows Components' tab.

Select 'Accessories and Utilities'.

Press the 'Details' button.

Select 'Accessories'.

Press the 'Details' button.

You should now see Wordpad in the list.

Check Wordpad to install and press OK > OK > Next.

 

--

Rey

 

 

"Joe Bloggs" wrote:

> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad

> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.

> My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.

>

> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,

> or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)

>

> Many thanks

>

>

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