Re: WordPad won't open text files beyond 300-400kb

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On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 03:20:02 -0700, AiadTarik wrote:

I appreciate your will to help me, taking time to write to someone to help
is someething i value very much,I tried what you suggested, I downloaded the
hotfix but nothing chnaged ,I aslo treid to copy the contents from notepad
and paste into anew blank wordpad but also nothing changed ,I aslo opened a
new wordpad file and write rubbish till the file became about 2 mb and closed
it and reopen it again, nothing changed ,I think it may be something with
registry, the problem is that it happens on every PC i tried ,may be even in
your PC ,I don't know ,again thank you very much for your effort and time and
if you have any more suggestions I would appreciate it.

I'm happy to try and help. Even happier if we get the problem fixed. I have
a desktop PC and a tablet PC; both have SP2 and all critical updates from
Microsoft installed. I opened a large plain text file in Wordpad - about
750 kb - and it opened almost instantaneously.

I'm assuming that your Wordpad problems are limited to text files only. In
other words Wordpad is working with other files - RTF, for example. If that
is not the case, now would be a good time to mention other Wordpad problems
that you are experiencing.

Running low on suggestions but a few left:
Open Wordpad. Under View, click on Options and select the "text" tab. If
not already selectd, choose "no wrap." OK the change and try opening one of
those text files again.

MVP Kelly Theriot has a "restore wordpad.exe" fix on her website that you
could try. It is on line 308, left hand side of this page:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

I'm hoping that this fix checks registry entries for Wordpad as well as
replacing the .exe file. Since Kelly's interests are centered on the
registry -there's a chance it will do just that. If it does not, you'll end
up where you started and no worse. Or you could drop her an email and ask
her what the fix addresses before trying it.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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