One thing you could try [no guarantees here] is to simply copy the Wordpad program from your Win98 machine to your Win XP machine and see if it will run. I've been hanging on to the old Windows 3.1 Cardfile program through several operating systems, and it still works. [even in Ubuntu under their Wine Windows emulator]
If it complains about not finding a certain file when you attempt to run it on the XP machine, find that file on the Win 98 machine and copy it into the system folder on your Win XP machine and try it again until you stop getting unfound file complaints. Then I suppose you could always just go download this free Wordpad replacement that can read the files you have. http://www.jarte.com/ Later, Ray Parrish d_papabear wrote: > > Hi, all--I'm a professional musician and have been using Win.98 for a > few years programming my one-man show...using midi files for playing > my background. I recently bought a new laptop (Acer Aspire 5050-3242) > loaded with Win. XP Media Editon. My problem is that all my files > created on Wordpad Win. 98 won't open in the new XP machine. I have > thousands of files, song words, etc. created on Wordpad and I really > need some kind of driver or something to make the word 6.0 open in XP. > I insatlled Microsoft Office, but when it opened the wordpad files > from the old "98" program, it put it on a page with a bunch of stuff > at the top of the page instead of just the plain sheet with writing on > it. The Office program takes up about 1/3 page with different icons > for operations I will never use for my purpose. I would love to know > how to just make this XP open the old wordpad files. Any help will be > greatly appreciated. I'm obviosly not a tech, but I have been playing > with these machines "by ear" for approx. 10 years and have changed > hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives, fans, power supplies > myself...so hopefully I can understand what you tell me. Thanks!-- > ROBERT-- > > -- http://www.rayslinks.com/ Web index of human reviewed links. <http://www.rayslinks.com/Troubleshooting%20and%20fixing%20Windows.html> Trouble shooting and Fixing Windows http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com My poetry in web pages ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
