Wordpad lost Word 6 format

[Sid Elbow]

The Wordpad program on this machine no longer gives the selection "Word
for Windows 6.0" as an option when saving files. The only ones it gives
now are:

- RTF
- Text Document
- Text Document - MSDOS format
- Unicode Text Document

Don't know when it got lost, none of my other machines are like this.
Any advice on getting it back?

 

[Dave Patrick]

That's all I have as well on Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 2003
server / Windows 2008 server. Must be something you installed.


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[Sid Elbow]

That's all I have as well on Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 2003
server / Windows 2008 server. Must be something you installed.

You mean you *don't* have the Word 6.0 option on those machines either?


I did some more checking:

On all my other machines (which *do* offer the Word6 selection), the
Wordpad.exe filesize is 182 KB and the file date is 10/20/2004.

On this machine, the filesize is 184 KB and the file date is 4/30/2008



So I went to my last backup (27 June 2009) for this machine and checked
the copy there it was 182 KB and 10/20/2004. The most significant thing
that's happened since then on this machine (but not all the others at
this time) is that I ran Windows Update.

So my guess is that Windows Update has changed this program particularly
if your (up to date, I'm sure) machines have the later file. Either
that, or the file has been compromised on this machine (it scans OK).

Could you check the file sizes and dates on your machine please, Dave? I
can also check this theory by updating the other machines of course.

 

[me]

The Wordpad program on this machine no longer gives the
selection "Word for Windows 6.0" as an option when saving
files. The only ones it gives now are:

- RTF
- Text Document
- Text Document - MSDOS format
- Unicode Text Document

Don't know when it got lost, none of my other machines are
like this. Any advice on getting it back?

See if you have
C:\WINNT\$NtUpdateRollupPackUninstall$\wordpad.exe

J

 

[Sid Elbow]

See if you have
C:\WINNT\$NtUpdateRollupPackUninstall$\wordpad.exe

No, don't have anything like that.

 

[me]

No, don't have anything like that.

I had the same problem; also the "no word 6" version could not
render .WRI files.

Try to find a wordpad.exe
180 KB (185,104 bytes)
v5.00.2170.1

FWIW, I found it in $NtUpdateRollup... (see above) and copied
it under a different name into Program Files.

J

 

[Dave Patrick]

XP = 4/21/2008 211k
2003 = 4/29/2008 212k
Vista = 1/20/2008 330k
2008 = 1/19/2008 330k

If you have the backup why not copy the old file back?


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[Sid Elbow]

XP = 4/21/2008 211k
2003 = 4/29/2008 212k
Vista = 1/20/2008 330k
2008 = 1/19/2008 330k

If you have the backup why not copy the old file back?

I was thinking of doing just that however ....

- I ran Windows Update on on of the other systems and sure enough,
Wordpad.exe was replaced by the newer version (which will not allow
saving *or* opening of Word 6 files).

- Since these were security updates, I did some more digging and finally
stumbled across:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-010.mspx

Which seems likely to be at the bottom of it. That being so, it might be
taking a risk to simply replace the new file with the old one.

 

[Sid Elbow]

Try to find a wordpad.exe
180 KB (185,104 bytes)
v5.00.2170.1

FWIW, I found it in $NtUpdateRollup... (see above) and copied
it under a different name into Program Files.

Well, I could simply copy over the version that is on my other
installations .... but see my comments to Dave.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Looks like that's it. Might be time to convert those old files.


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[me]

Looks like that's it. Might be time to convert those old
files.

Hi Dave,

What should one do with .WRI files which the updated Wordpad
does not render correctly?

J

 

[me]

Well, I could simply copy over the version that is on my
other installations .... but see my comments to Dave.

Oh boy. Thanks for the heads up.

J

 

[Dave Patrick]

Maybe something here helps.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+wri&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=



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[me]

Maybe something here helps.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+wri&btnG=Search
&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Thanks.

J

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome.


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