Help please,after latest updates Notepad does not work correctly

[NiniGirl]

Yesterday I did an update,latest 8 critical updates, and now notepad
won't open automatically. What I mean is that notepad can be opened
and text files can be opened thru it but if I'm in explorer and I
double click,or right click choose open,on a txt file nothing happens.
I also installed a camera about the same time as well,but I've since
uninstalled that and notepad still doesn't respond correctly. Any help
appreciated.


NiniGirl

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
see if this helps:-
Restore Notepad.exe
line:326
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Kelly]

I also installed a camera about the same time as well.

Start there.

 

[Darrell]

Right click the .txt file in Explorer and choose "open with". Choose to
open with notepad and put a check mark before "always use this program for
this type file?.

 

[NiniGirl]

Start there.
/xp_tweaks.htm

Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm

None of this helped but after perusing the registry I found it was
telling windows to look for notepad in the win32 directory. When I
looked,there was indeed a notepad.exe in that dir. but it wasn't a
real one. So a little editing and alls well again. At least until
something else goes wrong with what I believe to be the most buggy
Microsoft product yet.

NiniGirl

 

[Alex Nichol]

None of this helped but after perusing the registry I found it was
telling windows to look for notepad in the win32 directory. When I
looked,there was indeed a notepad.exe in that dir. but it wasn't a
real one. So a little editing and alls well again.

For some reason the system likes to have two copies of notepad.exe - one
in C:\Windows and one in C:\Windows\system32 (which I presume is what
you are referring to as win32 - if there is a separate win32 folder,
other than it having been chosen as alternative to C:\windows, it does
not belong )

One of them is used in the shortcut in the Start - All Programs,. . .
the other in file associations. Something around seems to be deleting
one of them.