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

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proteanthread

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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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Does Vista even come with wordpad still?
 
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Senator Al Franken Stein

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?
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Dear Jewy SusieQ Grossbag Jewess:

Oy, Vey!

As a dedicated tribal affiliate and ardent supporter of our blessed
Zionist purloined land of Israel, I feel your pain.

However, I must point out that AMT is hardly state specific and actually
applies to all of us Hebrews who have the cunning that it takes to avoid
paying goyim taxes by using tax shelters.

Holocaust though it may be, sister of Jezebel, it is our cross to bear.

Have no fear, our stooges Nancy Peeloser and Hellary Cunton will do our
bidding, without question. Chuckles Schumer and AIPAC have seen to that.

Kosher comrades tell me that this will work, for conversions.

http://media-convert.com/convert/help.html

Never forget; we will rule, they will obey, forever and always!

Arbeit Macht Frei; Oy, Vey!


Your dedicated tribesman,

Senator Al Franken Stein
Little Terror of Minnesota
 
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Susan Grossman

Dear Jewy SusieQ Grossbag Jewess:
However, I must point out that AMT is hardly state specific
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More than half the AMT is paid by taxpayers in New York and California
alone, so AMT is indeed state specific. The main reason is high state
income taxes. Texas and Florida and Kansas (of all places) have the lowest
rates of ordinary individuals subject to the AMT. AMT is very state
specific.

Sue (a Christian who uses her married name)
 
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Susan Grossman

Well, then, why bother asking when you don't follow standard practice?
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Isn't it standard practice to install your programs into a hierarchy of
your choosing? If it wasn't standard practice, then why does every
installer ask where you want to install?

Why? Because it's standard practice to install the programs into an
organized hierarchy by functionality.

Nobody takes the defaults when it comes to installations. If they did, then
they wouldn't ask every single time where you really want to install the
program.

Doesn't an organized file system make sense to you?
Or do you actually use the location defaults when you install programs?

Sue
 
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Guest

You can use Expand command e.g.

Expand Wordpad.ex_ Wordpad.exe

Check if you have already installed and just the shortcut is missing.

"\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"

Hope this help, let us know!
 
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Ivan Tisljar

Isn't it standard practice to install your programs into a hierarchy of
your choosing? If it wasn't standard practice, then why does every
installer ask where you want to install?
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Yes, it is - but as in Linux/Unix, there are some standard dictories
where executables should be (/bin, /usr/bin)... in windows, there is a
folder named Program Files, where you can make yourself hierarchy you
wish.
Why? Because it's standard practice to install the programs into an
organized hierarchy by functionality.
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Yes it is. But you have to follow some guidelines. All user profiles
(and user-speciffic settings) are to be under Documents and settings,
and all installed programs are to be under Program files. System files
goes to /windows/system32.
Nobody takes the defaults when it comes to installations. If they did, then
they wouldn't ask every single time where you really want to install the
program.
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I do, except for games. For them, I made C:\Games folder, and I
install them there. Old habbit from DOS days. As for other programs, I
always use default paths - they are already on drive anyway, and I
don't tend to delete programs as in DOS days, by deleting it's folder
- I use add/remove programs applet to do just that.
Doesn't an organized file system make sense to you?
Or do you actually use the location defaults when you install programs?
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I do. And I know why. It's the very reason why you can't find some
programs now, and why you will later have problems with other various
programs. These default programs windows use are there by very design
- if you install additional programs, you can install them wherever
you want, and noone is forcing you to install them to Program files
directory. However, if you move/rename that directory, registry isn't
the only place where the references to that folder resides... I hope
you are aware of that.

Ivan.

--

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
chown -R you ~/base

http://hlloyge.kickme.to/
delete _system_ to mail me
 
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Tx2

More than half the AMT is paid by taxpayers in New York and California
alone, so AMT is indeed state specific. The main reason is high state
income taxes. Texas and Florida and Kansas (of all places) have the lowest
rates of ordinary individuals subject to the AMT. AMT is very state
specific.
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You had your chance, take your political discussion elsewhere!

*plonk*
 
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John Fitzsimons

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:14:27 -0800, Susan Grossman

Nobody takes the defaults when it comes to installations.
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Haven't come across anyone called "Nobody". I have no idea why
he/she doesn't use default settings. Contrariness maybe ?
If they did, then
they wouldn't ask every single time where you really want to install the
program.
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It makes sense for an installer to tell people where something will be
installed. It also makes sense to confirm that that destination is
okay. Even if it is extremely unlikely one will want to use a
different destination.
Doesn't an organized file system make sense to you?
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Microsoft seems to think that putting "Program Files" in a folder
called "Program Files" makes sense.
Or do you actually use the location defaults when you install programs?
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I would guess that at least 95% of windows end users use location
defaults. That helps people with upgrading. If they upgrade then they
just have to remember to use defaults and they should avoid
installation duplications.

Regards, John.
 
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Bjorn Simonsen

Susan Grossman wrote in said:
Isn't it standard practice to install your programs into a hierarchy of
your choosing? If it wasn't standard practice, then why does every
installer ask where you want to install?
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Good question :). The way you have done it makes perfect sense. I've
done the same my self. I have all my programs in D:\programs, and what
is by default placed in "Documents and settings" i have under
F:\files\<username>). I mirror my C: drive, including the Windows
install, so if anything breaks (it does!), I can simply restore my C:\
partition, leaving most of everything else as is. A few programs will
have to be reinstalled, but some don't, and of those that do - many
are able to inherit settings from the previous install (installs as a
repair or an upgrade).

Of course when I first made this setup I soon learned that few native
MS utilities had to reside in C:\Program Files to work at all.
Likewise some of their "settings" located in C:\Documents and
settings. But as I did not bother to spend time looking for the magic
tweak that wold make them work from anything but the default location.
I simply put the native MS stuff back to the default location, and
kept everything else where I wanted it. As for "My documents" I used
the move method supplied by MS, and renamed it to my liking.

I suspect some of the native MS stuff is "hard coded" to only work
from one location only, as in business as usually: MS makes the rules
for everyone else (offer the user a choice of installation path etc),
but does not adhere to the same rules them selves.

All the best
Bjorn Simonsen
 
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Guest

Wordpad.exe is backup in a 2 places, C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 and
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache

But if you want to change WORDPAD.EX_ into WORDPAD.EXE, you need to download
WindowsXP-KB838079-SupportTools-ENU.exe, which install Windows XP Service
Pack 2 Support Tools. After you install it you need to uses a command line
tool called extract.exe

Here's a command example with XPSP2 CD in cd drive
extract %CD%\i386\wordpad.ex_ "C:\Program Files\Windows
NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe"

"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories" is the default location when you
install XP

Thanks
 
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