I got a new computer and went from Win98SE to XP.  I just realized that
ALL my old documents from Win98SE that were created in WordPad, are not
readable now. even though I have WordPad on the new system.  When I try to
open them, I get the message:
"Cannot load Word for Windows 6.0 files".  I don't understand that, because
I never had Word for Windows.  For a brief period of time, I had a program
that would read Word documents.  I tried it, because  people were sending me
documents produced in Word that I couldn't read.
Now I can't
remember exactly why I uninstalled it, except that it was affecting my
existing WordPad documents in some way.   I suppose it corrupted my Wordpad
documents, although I was able to read them in WordPad on my old system as
recently as the day I switched to the new system.  It's only my new system
that is having problems with them, even though it has WordPad..  I KNOW the
documents I'm trying to open now were
created in WordPad, because they're documents I created myself within my old
Win98SE system.  AND, they're documents I need badly.  (There are probably
thousands of them covering several years.)
Carol Hanson

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