notepad

[matrixwalker2002]

My notepad program is missing, anyone know how to recover it? thanks

 

[Ryoga]

Believe it or not:

http://notepad.org/



But no, seriously. You should be able to run System File Checker, or simply locate it in one of the .CAB files and extract it.

 

[HeXploiT]

Is it really missing or just not opening? Check and see. I was having the same problem and i opened the folder only to find that notepad.exe was now notpad.exe which turned out to be a trojan.
If so, you'll need to delete notepad.exe then rename notpad.exe back to notepad.exe.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Originally posted by: Ryoga
Believe it or not:

http://notepad.org/



But no, seriously. You should be able to run System File Checker, or simply locate it in one of the .CAB files and extract it.

It's not in the CAB files.

It is in the i386 directory.
Drop to a Command Prompt, change to the i386 directory and type:

:\expand not*.* c:\windows\

It will expand the Files NOTEPAD.EXE, NOTEPAD.HLP, NOTEPAD.CHM.

 

[CorporationX]

control panel->add remove programs->windows components and its in there somewhere.

 

[redbeard1]

Try doing a search for notepad.exe. Normally it is found in the c:\windows folder. I've seen this happen a number of times and usually the file is still there, but the association to it was broken

 

[GigaCluster]

Perhaps this is god's way of telling you that you should switch to a different, superior program? How about jEdit or SciTE from the open-source brigate, or TextPad or UltraEdit from the shareware side?

 

[oldman420]

i had this problem i had to choose properties of the notepad icon and point to the the right location of notepad.exe that did the trick

 

[LiLithTecH]

The thing with this particular Trojan/Hijacker is it will not let you
RENAME or REPLACE the file while they still exist. You must DELETE
every occurance (renamed or not) then replace.