Notepad

[noisedude]

my notepad has turned into something else with a funny icon and i can't load it any more. i need it rather than wordpad in the very near future. i can't find any spyware or virus that's caused it, both ad-aware and AVG are up to date. would someone be willing to send me the notepad exe (from win XP) so i can replace this one? does anyone know what's happened?

[IMG]c:/documents and settings/nik/my documents/my pictures/notepad.bmp[/IMG]

[Siliconjunkie]

You need to fix your pic or give some more detail. It's linking to a local file on your PC, so you can see it but nobody else can.

[noisedude]

go on explain. all i know is when i double click a txt file nothing visibly loads and the same happens when i try to open notepad. i don't know what's actually happened or what this new icon or microsoft media load refers to!

[John Prophet]

what happens when you go to the run box and type in "notepad"? (without the quotes)

[jmichna]

What happens if you navigate to the C:\WINDOWS (whatever) directory and double-click on Notepad.exe?

If you delete 'notepad.exe' from C:\WINDOWS it will be replaced automatically from the one in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dllcache directory. Even if somebody sent you there 'notepad.exe' it would be overwritten by the one in your \dllcache directory.

Do an 'SFC /PURGECACHE' and then 'SFC /SCANNOW' to see if it doesn't fix it.

You can try somebody else's 'notepad.exe', but it probably won't work.