Notepad will not open

Question

When I try to open Notepad I get a message saying, C:\Windows\Notepad.exe is not a valid win32 aplication. It happend after I tried to save something to it. How can I sort it out ? Thanks in advance !

volcano11 · Answer

This sounds suspiciously like you have contracted a virus. Make sure that you have up to date virus definitions and run a full system scan with your antivirus software. Steve

Michelle_13 · Answer

If there is no virus you could try and extract the notepad.exe using SFC from the run line.

paulGY · Answer

I tried to extract notepad.exe from run but it says 'cannot open file:notepad.exe'

Denny Denham · Answer

paulGY,

If you have done the virus scan (that volcano11 recommended) and come up clean. Delete notepad.exe from your system.

Then go to Start|Run, type SFC and click OK. Tell System File Checker to extract one file (notepad.exe) from the installation CD (your Windows 98 CD). Point the extraction at D:\Win98 (assuming D: is your CD-ROM drive) and tell SFC to put the extracted file in C:\Windows. This procedure normally fails because SFC is not told to look in the Win98 folder.

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Message Edited on 03/08/02 02:10PM by Denny Denham

paulGY · Answer

I checked my system for a virus but it was clean, so I ran the 'SFC' program and it worked, Note pad is working ok now. Thanks for all replys !

Michigan cat · Answer

Thanks Denny, Your knowledge and wisdom lives on, to help again. My Word Pad  program once again lives. .......MC.....

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