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janabanana
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:00 am Post subject:
reinstalling Windows XP Home Edition |
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Hello there. I'm new to the group, and I hope you can help me.
I have a Dell computer with the following specs:
Pentium 4 CPU, 1.59 GHz, 256 MB RAM. It came with Windows XP Home Edition.
I installed Service Pack 2 earlier this year. In September, I downloaded a
trial version of MicroSoft Office 2003, including Excel, Power Point, etc.
The trial expired on October 31, so I uninstalled the package. Now that I
have uninstalled Office 2003, all my documents which were previously saved in
Windows XP have been converted to Word Pad. I tried to reinstallation CD
that came with the system, but it prompts me that it is an earlier version of
Windows XP and my documents would be affected. So, in essence, my XP Home
Edition package is GONE and my documents are inaccesible.
Is there any way to fix this problem? How do I reinstall Windows XP Home
Edition without losing all of my documents?
Thank you so much for your help. |
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Tom Scales
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:06 am Post subject:
Re: reinstalling Windows XP Home Edition |
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Well, first, you're in the wrong group.
Second, it is working exactly as it should. You created DOC files with an
application that you no longer have. The only application that you still
have that is capable of reading DOC files is Wordpad, so the asssociation
has returned to notepad.
Reinstally XP Home will accomplish nothing. Your solution is to purchase a
copy of Word.
If you Dell came with Word, which is quite possible, than you need to
reinstall it. If your machine came with the Works Suite (a good
possibility), it includes Word. Your machine would have come with the
disks, so just reinstall it.
Tom
"janabanana" <jana_mye@msn.com> wrote in message
news:50A358EB-E8D5-44CD-89AC-BC7FDF34144A@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hello there. I'm new to the group, and I hope you can help me.
I have a Dell computer with the following specs:
Pentium 4 CPU, 1.59 GHz, 256 MB RAM. It came with Windows XP Home Edition.
I installed Service Pack 2 earlier this year. In September, I downloaded
a
trial version of MicroSoft Office 2003, including Excel, Power Point, etc.
The trial expired on October 31, so I uninstalled the package. Now that I
have uninstalled Office 2003, all my documents which were previously saved
in
Windows XP have been converted to Word Pad. I tried to reinstallation CD
that came with the system, but it prompts me that it is an earlier version
of
Windows XP and my documents would be affected. So, in essence, my XP Home
Edition package is GONE and my documents are inaccesible.
Is there any way to fix this problem? How do I reinstall Windows XP Home
Edition without losing all of my documents?
Thank you so much for your help.
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John
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:
RE: reinstalling Windows XP Home Edition |
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It didn't convert them to "wordpad" files, it just changed the association to
Wordpad (as with all .DOC files). What you can do is A) install a newer
version of Word, or B) look on Google.com for a FREE ".DOC" viewer so you can
get into those docs. Your documents (.doc files) are not converted or messed
up by uninstalling, so there is no problem with the files themselves, it is
the way you are trying to view and access them that is the problem. I would
bet that new Dell computer you bought has some type of MS Word capable
program it came with so you can resolve this (if not, GOOGLE). Good luck!
"janabanana" wrote:
| Quote: | Hello there. I'm new to the group, and I hope you can help me.
I have a Dell computer with the following specs:
Pentium 4 CPU, 1.59 GHz, 256 MB RAM. It came with Windows XP Home Edition.
I installed Service Pack 2 earlier this year. In September, I downloaded a
trial version of MicroSoft Office 2003, including Excel, Power Point, etc.
The trial expired on October 31, so I uninstalled the package. Now that I
have uninstalled Office 2003, all my documents which were previously saved in
Windows XP have been converted to Word Pad. I tried to reinstallation CD
that came with the system, but it prompts me that it is an earlier version of
Windows XP and my documents would be affected. So, in essence, my XP Home
Edition package is GONE and my documents are inaccesible.
Is there any way to fix this problem? How do I reinstall Windows XP Home
Edition without losing all of my documents?
Thank you so much for your help.
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