On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:49:31 -0500, "- Bobb -"
wrote:

THEO@TO. wrote in message
.. .
It's not really a Notepad icon after all, but it is a text icon
just white with black lines and the spiral looking thing across
the top.


That spiral icon IS wordpad.

Oh. My bad. It does say it's wordpad, but still does the text
only thing.

I right clicked on a WordPad icon and selected Run as...

WHY did you do that ?
"Run as... " means to RUN the program AS another user.
Reread previous message - in explorer , you want to "Open With" .

I've done that a number of times. There are two versions of
wordpad on this machine and I've opened it with both of them, and
with the same result. Going to File Types, DOC files open with
wordpad and there is only the one listing of DOC files which is
what these are.

Did you copy/paint " google icon" as I did ?
Did that work ?

I copied a .jpg and pasted it into a paint document, but I still
want to be able to go back to doing it with wordpad since I've
already got a bunch of wordpad documents that used to work fine
and then all of a sudden stopped working. Something changed. How
do you put text in paint docs, btw?

I tried copying the info from one of the wordpad docs and pasting
it into a paint doc to see if that would work, but it didn't.

Does wordpad actually display the images that are pasted into it,
or is it another program that's responsible for making images
look like images in wordpad docs?

The box by
"Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program
activity" was checked, so I unchecked it and hit OK hoping that
would change things back. But I can't find out whether it would
or not because something keep checking the box again...every time
I uncheck it and close the window, when I open it again it's
checked again. So now what???