Curious - why wordpad.exe in 2 locations?
On my Win XP pc, I see that Wordpad.exe is found in 2 places:
1. C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
2. C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories
Why is that?
Jack
Pegasus \(MVP\)
07-10-2005, 01:01 AM
"Jack" <jslimp01nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On my Win XP pc, I see that Wordpad.exe is found in 2 places:
> 1. C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
> 2. C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories
>
> Why is that?
>
> Jack
>
Because #2 is the working version and #1 is the updated
version that came with your service pack. There are lots
of other duplicates too!
OK, thanks -- but here's the real problem:
I'm trying to add a button to the MS Office Bar (Ofc 97) and get it to work
on my XP machine as is does on my Win 98 machine. No matter which path I
use as the target, it doesn't work.
"C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
or
"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
Some stupid error with DrWatson seems involved!?
Jack
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"Jack" <jslimp01nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On my Win XP pc, I see that Wordpad.exe is found in 2 places:
> 1. C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
> 2. C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories
>
> Why is that?
>
> Jack
>
Because #2 is the working version and #1 is the updated
version that came with your service pack. There are lots
of other duplicates too!
Pegasus \(MVP\)
07-10-2005, 01:01 AM
"Jack" <jslimp01nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> OK, thanks -- but here's the real problem:
>
> I'm trying to add a button to the MS Office Bar (Ofc 97) and get it to
work
> on my XP machine as is does on my Win 98 machine. No matter which path I
> use as the target, it doesn't work.
>
> "C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
> or
> "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
>
> Some stupid error with DrWatson seems involved!?
>
>
> Jack
Your command
"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
looks rather strange. How about something like this:
"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" c:\SomeFile.rtf
OK, thanks -- that works.
Interesting, in Win 98, I did it with the switch "/", the 8-letter file
name, and putting the path in START IN.
Jack
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"Jack" <jslimp01nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> OK, thanks -- but here's the real problem:
>
> I'm trying to add a button to the MS Office Bar (Ofc 97) and get it to
work
> on my XP machine as is does on my Win 98 machine. No matter which path I
> use as the target, it doesn't work.
>
> "C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
> or
> "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
>
> Some stupid error with DrWatson seems involved!?
>
>
> Jack
Your command
"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" /ASCII&~1.rtf
looks rather strange. How about something like this:
"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" c:\SomeFile.rtf
Curious - why wordpad.exe in 2 locations?