Not wanting to step on Denny, others have had problems recently with desktop icons not opening. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:\Windows  folder. Scroll down the listing to Notepad.Exe and right-click> 'send to'> desktop (create shortcut). Then see if it opens correctly.

n2u2nyte,

Right-click on the Notepad listiing in Accessories and select Properties. What is shown in the "Target:" box?

Message Edited by Denny Denham on 11-10-2004 07:30 PM

Target says:

n2u2nyte,

Change that to read %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe which should restore the proper performance.

will not accept, target says it's not valid

n2u2nyte,

If it isn't in C:\Windows\system32, do the following. Insert your Windows XP CD in the drive then go to Start|Run, enter cmd and click OK. At the command prompt enter the following, substituting the letter of your CD-ROM drive for X:

expand X:\i386\notepad.ex_ c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe

Press . (There is a space after ex_ and before c:\.)

Once notepad has been expanded into the system32 folder and the target reference has been corrected it should work.

Thanks for everyone input,I got it up an running.Instead of system 32 it opened to c:windows\notepad_exe.Once again,thanks