pronker
Thu Jul 24 09:56:02 PDT 2008
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
> pronker wrote:
> > I installed Office Suite, Home/Student version, on my laptop (XP) to
> > help my son's schoolwork before he got his own computer. Now I want
> > to uninstall it as I really only need WordPad, but all my files
> > originally in WordPad can now also be opened in Word and IE and their
> > icons have changed to a 'W'. If I uninstall the suite, will my old
> > files be injured in some way?
>
> No, your existing files won't be touched at all.
>
> When you installed Office, one of the things it did was to set a registry
> entry to tell Windows that Word is the application to open when you
> double-click a file with a .doc extension, and another to change the icon.
>
> When you uninstall Word, it should remove those entries, leaving WordPad as
> the assigned application for those files. If that doesn't happen correctly,
> it's easy to fix:
>
> - In Windows Explorer, right-click any .doc file and choose Properties.
>
> - In the Properties dialog, where it says what program the file opens with,
> click the Change button.
>
> - In the next dialog, select WordPad. Make sure the box for "Always use the
> selected program" is checked, and click OK.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
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>
> Thanks, Jay. I shall prevail. pronker