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Can anyone make these files available (from an MS installation (before Win11 update: 24H2)
Wordpad.exe
wordpadfilter.dllTIA
Notepad++ is a much better multi featured free item.
@eelgoo, thanks for the tip, but I have that one, but it do not open/show (some) files (*.RTF), the right way, unfortunately.
@frank22, thanks a LOT, I'll try to make it work
@frank22, Thank You - that way it works
Wordpad was apparently killed because it could access protected memory. And then they give us Recall which takes a screenshot of everything you do every 5 fucking seconds LOL. So much for security & privacy concerns.
@frank22,
Like MS has done before, (to force us to use their Office product$$$)@felicia have you ever given Libre Office a try? It's everything MS Office should have been.
Libre Writer will read and write .rtf perfectly, and it has all the tools missing from Worm-pad. And it's cross-platform. AND it has a better UI than MS Orifice. AND...
it's FREE!@Amberkat I don't know Libre Office, but I got wordpad working again with the help of @frank21, as I don't use Office programs on my own PC.
I prefer not to use more Microsoft programs than your PC is infected with, from birth :D, even though "they" would PREFER to see that you sign up for THAT Office subscription
(Worm-pad) Good one
Libre Office is NOT Microsoft Office! It's a much better replacement...
from https://www.libreoffice.org/ :LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.Also, Writer handles .rtf perfectly, has amazing editing tools, and exports perfect beautiful PDF files (which can be edited with templates) for when your job applications require PDF over other Office formats. :p
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From my experience, there will come a time when your legacy .exe & .dll will start to break, as MS is always deprecating and migrating code in their native API, they did this before with earlier NT executables, anything that uses(used) COM and ActiveX, etc. Remember the old .chm Help files? They broke that all to hell and back with Win7 and beyond, requiring a download of special DLLs and junk to get your older Help files to work properly in-app again (though they now work again in Win10). They also did this with compressed .cab files, so if you had CABs that weren't from MS installers, you needed a special cab extractor... same thing when they migrated from Thunking to pure x64, lots of executables broke including legacy Windows components that you'd hold onto because Microsoft LOVES to play Hide The Cheese with us mice.
Only a matter of time before Win12 comes along and shits the bed once again.<last edit I promise>
the RTF and DOCX formats have undergone many revisions, and current Wordpad doesn't handle all of them correctly; I have docs from early 2000s that seem broken, and won't render in my Opus lister preview because it uses Office DLLs to work... Libre throws that headache away and simply opens and renders everything properly no matter which .rtf or .doc/.docx version.You'll never use anything else again. It's fast, simple, stable and free.
Based on Wordpad.
https://www.jarte.com/@Amberkat & @Supreme-leech Thanks to both of You for the help/tip - very appreciated, I'll check both out soon.
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