notepad

[frustrated Lori]

I can not open any files in my notepad. When I open
them, they are in symbols, such as boxes and different
text like a y with 2 dots above it or a + with a _ below
it. Is this a virus or did some one encrypt them and do
I need a password to get them. Please help, have spent
way to much time on this. Thank you

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are these large files? Have you tried opening them in WordPad?

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I can not open any files in my notepad. When I open
them, they are in symbols, such as boxes and different
text like a y with 2 dots above it or a + with a _ below
it. Is this a virus or did some one encrypt them and do
I need a password to get them. Please help, have spent
way to much time on this.

It's unlikely that it's a virus or the result of encryption.
You're probably just trying to open files unsuitable for notepad.

Notepad is a text editor, suitable only for opening plain text
files, such as those with a .txt extension.

What kind of files are you trying to open? If they are
proprietary word processing files, such as .doc files, or any
other non-text files, that's why they look strange when you open
them.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What specific kinds of files are you trying to open? NotePad is a
text editor, so it can only read plain text files, those with
extensions like "txt," "ini," and sometimes "cfg." If you try opening
a non-text file with NotePad you'll see nothing but gibberish.


Bruce Chambers

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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

I don't believe that's the issue, in this case. Whenever I've
tried opening an oversized text file with NotePad, I've received a
warning that the file was too large, accompanied by the offer to open
it with WordPad.

Bruce Chambers

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[David Candy]

In NT based systems both Notepad and Wordpad use the Rich Text Edit control, which has a 2 gig limit. In 9x Notepad used an edit control which has a max of 64K (and the actual limit is less due to overheads).

 

[Jim Macklin]

I could be a font that is not letters, but only symbols is
loaded.


message | Greetings --
|
| What specific kinds of files are you trying to open?
NotePad is a
| text editor, so it can only read plain text files, those
with
| extensions like "txt," "ini," and sometimes "cfg." If you
try opening
| a non-text file with NotePad you'll see nothing but
gibberish.
|
|
| Bruce Chambers
|
| --
| Help us help you:
|
|
|
| You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
| having both at once. -- RAH
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|
| "frustrated Lori" <[email protected]>
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| message | > I can not open any files in my notepad. When I open
| > them, they are in symbols, such as boxes and different
| > text like a y with 2 dots above it or a + with a _ below
| > it. Is this a virus or did some one encrypt them and do
| > I need a password to get them. Please help, have spent
| > way to much time on this. Thank you
|
|

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Noted. Where _do_ you learn these details? ;-} Anyways, as
always, thanks for the education.

Bruce Chambers

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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
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In NT based systems both Notepad and Wordpad use the Rich Text Edit
control, which has a 2 gig limit. In 9x Notepad used an edit control
which has a max of 64K (and the actual limit is less due to
overheads).