Wordpad problem

[kim]

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place but I can`t find a wordpad group. I
don`t use Wordpad myself but my mother does and she says that the text
alignment buttons (Align left\center\right) on the Format bar are greyed out
and can`t be selected, every thing else is ok. She can`t remember when this
happened so I can`t realy do a system restore(not that I want to unless I
realy have to). Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks
Kim

 

[Elmo]

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong place but I can't find a Wordpad group. I
don't use Wordpad myself but my mother does and she says that the text
alignment buttons (Align left\center\right) on the Format bar are greyed out
and can't be selected, every thing else is ok. She can't remember when this
happened so I can't really do a system restore (not that I want to unless I
really have to). Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks
Kim

A Google Groups search found this by Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems:

Many errors in Wordpad are fixed by removing this key in the Registry
with Regedit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Applets\Wordpad

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...78?lnk=st&q="repair+wordpad"#be4f41dce145dc78

You could look through this registry key and see if there's a change
from your entries.

 

[kim]

A Google Groups search found this by Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems:

Many errors in Wordpad are fixed by removing this key in the Registry
with Regedit:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
Version\Applets\Wordpad

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...78?lnk=st&q="repair+wordpad"#be4f41dce145dc78

You could look through this registry key and see if there's a change from
your entries.

Hmm, thanks for the link although it`s aimed at Win98 will this apply to
XP?. I looked at the registry wordpad key and I wouldn`t know if anything
has changed or not. "Many errors in Wordpad are fixed by removing this key
in the Registry". Should I delete this key/will it rebuild it`s self or
something when the machine restarts?
I have another machine running XP home SP2 as well as this one and Wordpad
is ok on that machine, I looked at the reg key on that machine and there are
some different Dword and binary value settings.
Should I change the Dword and binary settings on this machine to match the
settings on the working wordpad computer? or could I delete the wordpad key
and then import the key from the working machine to the non working machine,
would that work ?
Hope that made some sense
Kim

 

[Elmo]

Hmm, thanks for the link although it`s aimed at Win98 will this apply to
XP?. I looked at the registry Wordpad key and I wouldn't know if anything
has changed or not. "Many errors in Wordpad are fixed by removing this key
in the Registry". Should I delete this key/will it rebuild it`s self or
something when the machine restarts?
I have another machine running XP home SP2 as well as this one and Wordpad
is ok on that machine, I looked at the reg key on that machine and there are
some different Dword and binary value settings.
Should I change the Dword and binary settings on this machine to match the
settings on the working wordpad computer? or could I delete the wordpad key
and then import the key from the working machine to the non working machine,
would that work ?
Hope that made some sense
Kim

Make a registry backup, or restore point, then delete the key, and see
if it's re-generated. If not, import from the other machine.

 

[kim]

Hey, thanks for your help Jo. I backedup then deleted the key, rebooted and
all`s back to normal.
Thanks
Kim

 

[Elmo]

Hey, thanks for your help Jo. I backed up then deleted the key, rebooted and
all's back to normal.
Thanks
Kim

Great news! Thanks for reporting back.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

In case anyone is interested, the (programming) source code for Wordpad is
supplied with Visual Studio, so programmers can look at the actual source
code. The program was originally written using C++ but I assume it was
converted to C#.

So if anyone encounters the problem again, it would help if the registry key
were exported and the contents of the export posted in case someone can
diagnose a more specific cause.