[dba-Tech] Problem with WordPad and Word in WinXP

Thanks a lot, John,
it did get me to the solution, although a differnet way than expected.
when I 'uninstalled' WordPad, and it was still there - starting from my 
desktop icon, I found the trick.
I have this PC running with 2 SATA drives. each drive has an active 
partition (both same size), and I made a backup image (Acronis) from the 
first SATA partition C: and restored it to the second SATA first partition 
which then became D:
since that worked and I could boot from SATA-2, I had the system on D:
Most things worked fine, but obviously some win functions referenced still 
C:, so there was a mixup between the D and C drive.
Now I have restored the backup image to D: and then renamed it to C: (and C: 
to N:) with Acronis Disk Director.
the problem with Word and Wordpad is gone.
But I have now to figure out a good way for emergancy switching between the 
two drives.

thanks again
Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Problem with WordPad and Word in WinXP


> I'd remove wordpad - try:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&as_qdr=all&
> q=remove+wordpad&btnG=Search
>
> If Word still has an issue - try repairing it again after you unistall
> wordpad.
>
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