How do we install wordpad on a Windows XP computer with WORDPAD.EX_ ?

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Susan Grossman

How do we install Wordpad on a WinXP computer?

Searching for "wordpad", I find the following:
- C:\i386\WORDPAD.EX_
- C:\i386\wordpad.inf
- C:\i386\wordpad.chm
- C:\i386\wordpad.hlp

I downloaded a *.doc template form to write to Nancy Pelosi & Hillary
Clinton asking for their record on votes to repeal the hellish horrors of
the alternative minimum tax system (a second federal tax system for
California and New Yorkers).

I don't have Microsoft Word or Sun Open Office - but shouldn't wordpad
suffice for a simple memo?

But how do I install Wordpad from the files that I have?

Sue
 
Susan Grossman said:
How do we install Wordpad on a WinXP computer?

Searching for "wordpad", I find the following:
- C:\i386\WORDPAD.EX_
- C:\i386\wordpad.inf
- C:\i386\wordpad.chm
- C:\i386\wordpad.hlp
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First off...
by default...XP already has wordpad.

If you deleted it just use the expand command

viz:


C:\i386> expand wordpad.ex_ c:\winnt\wordpad.exe
 
Susan Grossman wrote:
I downloaded a *.doc template form to write to Nancy Pelosi & Hillary
Clinton asking for their record on votes to repeal the hellish horrors of
the alternative minimum tax system (a second federal tax system for
California and New Yorkers).
Click to expand...
Sue
Click to expand...

and second, you can research this simply be going to the appropriate
*.gov website for each member (and if that is not enough then use Yahoo
or AOL's government pages).
 
How do we install Wordpad on a WinXP computer?
Searching for "wordpad", I find the following:
- C:\i386\WORDPAD.EX_
- C:\i386\wordpad.inf
- C:\i386\wordpad.chm
- C:\i386\wordpad.hlp
Click to expand...

I should note that I ran a complete file system search and there is no
other anything-wordpad-anything on my computer.

Yet I never uninstalled wordpad (at least on purpose I didn't).

Some people said to look in "c:\program files\windows nt\accessories" but
I don't even have a c:\program files directory as I moved it to c:\programs
the day I bought the computer via the registry search and replace mechanism
of PC magazine change of address.

Can I just install wordpad into
c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad\wordpad.exe using the INF file? Do I
modify that INF file or copy it to the directory above to run the
installation?

Sue
 
by default...XP already has wordpad.
If you deleted it just use the expand command
C:\i386> expand wordpad.ex_ c:\winnt\wordpad.
Click to expand...

Here is what I tried on the Windows XP command line:

Start > Run > cmd
c:\> cd c:\i386
c:\> mkdir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
c:\> expand wordpad.ex_ c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad

This provided the message:
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.

Expanding wordpad.ex_ to c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad\wordpad.ex_.
wordpad.ex_: 78082 bytes expanded to 214528 bytes, 174% increase.

Huh?

When I do a listing of what resulted, all it did was move the wordpad.ex_
file to the desired directory.

c:\> dir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
This provided the listing:

C:\i386> dir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 23AC-319F

Directory of c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad

02/17/2007 01:12 PM <DIR> .
02/17/2007 01:12 PM <DIR> ..
08/04/2004 12:56 AM 214,528 wordpad.ex_
1 File(s) 214,528 bytes
2 Dir(s) 18,204,901,376 bytes free


But when I created a shortcut called "wordpad" on the desktop and then
clicked on it so that it would find wordpad.exe, it failed to find it.

Maybe the "expand" command doesn't work like we think it works?

I had never heard of the DOS expand command before.
The help says:

C:\> expand /?
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.

Expands one or more compressed files.

EXPAND [-r] Source Destination
EXPAND -r Source [Destination]
EXPAND -D Source.cab [-F:Files]
EXPAND Source.cab -F:Files Destination

-r Rename expanded files.
-D Display list of files in source.
Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be used.
-F:Files Name of files to expand from a .CAB.
Destination Destination file | path specification.
Destination may be a directory.
If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified,
Destination must be a directory.

Am I doing something wrong to install wordpad on WinXP?

Sue
 
Susan said:
by default...XP already has wordpad.
If you deleted it just use the expand command
C:\i386> expand wordpad.ex_ c:\winnt\wordpad.
Click to expand...

Here is what I tried on the Windows XP command line:

Start > Run > cmd
c:\> cd c:\i386
c:\> mkdir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
c:\> expand wordpad.ex_ c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad

This provided the message:
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.

Expanding wordpad.ex_ to c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad\wordpad.ex_.
wordpad.ex_: 78082 bytes expanded to 214528 bytes, 174% increase.

Huh?

When I do a listing of what resulted, all it did was move the wordpad.ex_
file to the desired directory.

c:\> dir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
This provided the listing:

C:\i386> dir c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 23AC-319F

Directory of c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad

02/17/2007 01:12 PM <DIR> .
02/17/2007 01:12 PM <DIR> ..
08/04/2004 12:56 AM 214,528 wordpad.ex_
1 File(s) 214,528 bytes
2 Dir(s) 18,204,901,376 bytes free


But when I created a shortcut called "wordpad" on the desktop and then
clicked on it so that it would find wordpad.exe, it failed to find it.

Maybe the "expand" command doesn't work like we think it works?

I had never heard of the DOS expand command before.
The help says:

C:\> expand /?
Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.

Expands one or more compressed files.

EXPAND [-r] Source Destination
EXPAND -r Source [Destination]
EXPAND -D Source.cab [-F:Files]
EXPAND Source.cab -F:Files Destination

-r Rename expanded files.
-D Display list of files in source.
Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be used.
-F:Files Name of files to expand from a .CAB.
Destination Destination file | path specification.
Destination may be a directory.
If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified,
Destination must be a directory.

Am I doing something wrong to install wordpad on WinXP?

Sue
Click to expand...


now in the target directory RENAME wordpad.ex_ to wordpad.exe
 
Susan said:
I should note that I ran a complete file system search and there is no
other anything-wordpad-anything on my computer.

Yet I never uninstalled wordpad (at least on purpose I didn't).

Some people said to look in "c:\program files\windows nt\accessories" but
I don't even have a c:\program files directory as I moved it to c:\programs
the day I bought the computer via the registry search and replace mechanism
of PC magazine change of address.

Can I just install wordpad into
c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad\wordpad.exe using the INF file? Do I
modify that INF file or copy it to the directory above to run the
installation?

Sue
Click to expand...


It should already be in your "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories"
directory (I think) and also in your Start>Programs>Acessories shortcuts
 
On 17 Feb 2007, Susan Grossman wrote
How do we install Wordpad on a WinXP computer?
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(Puts on Chandler voice)

Could this *be* further off-topic for alt.comp.freeware?

Follow-ups set accordingly.
 
now in the target directory RENAME wordpad.ex_ to wordpad.exe
Click to expand...

Renaming wordpad.ex_ to wordpad.exe worked like a charm!

Installing Wordpad freeware this way doesn't create the shortcut so I
created one at:
Start > Programs > Editors > Microsoft > Wordpad

It also doesn't make the association to *.doc so I created that also.

Sue
 
It should already be in your "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories"
directory (I think) and also in your Start>Programs>Acessories shortcuts
Click to expand...

I don't even have a "C:\program files" folder, having moved it with COA
change of address the day I bought the computer to c:\programs and building
an organized hierarchy to organize the Microsoft hair brained flat
hierarchy into something that makes sense hierarchically.

So now the freeware wordpad program is where it belongs at
c:\programs\editors\microsof\wordpad

I didn't know anyone still used a c:\program files directory anymore?

Sue
 
This is alt.comp.freeware.
XP groups and politics are that way ----->
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Isn't wordpad freeware?

Even so, since wordpad is limited, is there any other freeware for *.doc
docs other than Sun Open Office?

Is there a lightweight freeware replacement for wordpad?

Sue
 
Susan Grossman wrote in said:
Even so, since wordpad is limited, is there any other freeware for *.doc
docs other than Sun Open Office?
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You might want to have a look here for some
standalone freeware Wordprocessors
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007TEXT.php#1.01Editor:WordProcessor


and more for you to browser here (around 20), in the category
"1.01 Editor: Word Processor" :
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_TEXT.php#1.01Editor:WordProcessor


All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Susan Grossman said:
Isn't wordpad freeware?

Even so, since wordpad is limited, is there any other freeware for *.doc
docs other than Sun Open Office?

Is there a lightweight freeware replacement for wordpad?
Click to expand...



If you want a full featured word processor

that's free ware see

http://www.abisource.com/
 
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proteanthread said:
The correct term is Legacyware.
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If "legacyware" means "commercial software which is still being sold
and supported", then that's the correct term.
 
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