Lost my Word Pad

During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad
from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.
My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.

So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,
or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)

Many thanks

"Joe Bloggs" <alcoNOSPAM@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad
> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my
> accessories. My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP
> SP3.
>
> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad
> back, or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)
>
> Many thanks

Here are a couple of places where it usually resides:
- c:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386
- d:\i386 (your WinXP installation CD)

If it is on the CD then you probably need to expand it.

If you have Service pack 2, it was updated then so the files would be
available there. Try using Agent Ransack (free file search tool) and
look for "Wordpad"

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/



Joe Bloggs wrote:

> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad
> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.
> My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.
>
> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,
> or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)
>
> Many thanks
>
>

Unless you actually deleted the file "wordpad.exe" from the system folder on
your hard drive its impossible to uninstall it through the normal process of
removing softare. If you accidentally deleted the shortcut from the start
menu, the easiest way of finding out if the program is still there is to go
to the RUN menu and type in "wordpad". If it comes up, then you know that you
only deleted the shortcut and not the whole program. If you still need the
program and you want to restore it without reinstalling windows, copy and
paste the following into the Start > Run box:

%systemroot%\inf\sysoc.inf

When the sysoc.inf file opens in Notepad, find the
following line:

MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7

Now take out the HIDE, so that the line reads:

MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,,7

Click File menu > Save.

Now go to Control Panel / Add\Remove Programs
Select the 'Add\Remove Windows Components' tab.
Select 'Accessories and Utilities'.
Press the 'Details' button.
Select 'Accessories'.
Press the 'Details' button.
You should now see Wordpad in the list.
Check Wordpad to install and press OK > OK > Next.

--
Rey


"Joe Bloggs" wrote:

> During an overdue clean up of my PC I have managed to remove (?) Word Pad
> from my PC, I did a disc clean up and maybe removed some of my accessories.
> My PC has had a few upgrades over the years and now on XP SP3.
>
> So, I am now not sure with CD I need to insert to try and get Word Pad back,
> or can I do it without any CD (hopefully!)
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>