Cannot Open Documents

[Arthur]

Recently, I have been attempting to open Wordpad documents which I have
successfully opened before, and am now receiving a pop up message "Can not
open Word for Windows 6.0 Document". I then click OK and the program
closes.

The document was done using Wordpad on Windows 98SE, and has previously
opened on this computer. I am now using Windows XP, with SP2 installed.

Can anyone help me open these documents? I've run out of ideas.

 

[Sunny]

Recently, I have been attempting to open Wordpad documents which I have
successfully opened before, and am now receiving a pop up message "Can not
open Word for Windows 6.0 Document". I then click OK and the program
closes.

The document was done using Wordpad on Windows 98SE, and has previously
opened on this computer. I am now using Windows XP, with SP2 installed.

Can anyone help me open these documents? I've run out of ideas.

Can't remember where I saved this from but it worked for me :

Problem can be with WinXP SP2 :
To enable RTF converters in Windows XP SP2, you must modify the registry.
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate and then click one of the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Wordpad
3. Click Edit, click New, click DWORD Value, type EnableLegacyConverters,
and then press ENTER.
4. Right-click EnableLegacyConverters, click Modify, and then change the
Value data to 1.
5. Click OK, and then quit Registry Editor.

HTH

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

Hold down left SHIFT key, right click this document, and select 'Open
with...' item. Release Shift key, and select Notepad to open it.

Do you see (not at the very beginning -- but somewhere below) the text
you expect to see in it? If not -- probably this document is damaged,
and that may be -- by virus. What are the first sensible words in it
then?
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Error message when you open a document file in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883090

 

[Guest]

Sunny is right. I had the same thing happen. It is definitely not a virus.

 

[Mikhail Zhilin]

Most likely I was paranoid in that reply -- and the link to
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883090
that Ramesh gave will solve the problem.
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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[Arthur]

MANY THANKS FOR THE HELP........IT WORKED!!!!!! : )
Arthur

 

[Guest]

I followed the exact instructions to enable RTF converters in Windows XP SP2
and I still cannot open my word documents that had been saved in Millenium.
What next??
I read something about 32bit and 64bit. My version is 2002 OEM. I have
the disk.

 

[Malke]

I followed the exact instructions to enable RTF converters in Windows
XP SP2 and I still cannot open my word documents that had been saved
in Millenium. What next??
I read something about 32bit and 64bit. My version is 2002 OEM. I
have the disk.

Here's the thing - you said you successfully opened the same documents
on the XP computer previously. How are the documents saved? On a
floppy, cd-r, or the hard drive? If the former, the files may be
corrupt since saving to a floppy is the worst way to back up data
(short of not backing up at all).

You are going in entirely the wrong direction worrying about 32 or
64-bit. You haven't got a 64-bit operating system. The issue is to find
out what changed between the time you could open the files on the XP
computer and the time you couldn't. As an aside, can you open the files
on a different computer?

Malke