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Don’t know if this will help, but my son had similar problem.
He had a Word file, downloaded it, clicked on it, would not open, eventually locked up computer.
He was using W2k and Office 2000.
What was happening is Word Pad tried to open it, could not, but continued to use all the resources in the background so when he used Office to open it, it locked. Just used task manager to close the Word Pad application and opened it directly from Office, no problems.
Hope this helps.
Hey, not sure if you'd want to do this...
This is what i do with corrupt word docs / excel docs / etc...
I wrote a simple program that opens the File (Just Like Notepad) but then i run it through a few character filters to clean up the text... this doesn't always work- but i have found it to be very useful :-)
anyway- i hope this helps...
I can post either the code or a binary of the program i mentioned...
Hello everyone,
The problems is solved. I've got another copy of the same program by a nice run of luck.
I would want to thank ya once again.
-inv
I've seen some stuff like this happen a few times. I know that you're already through with this problem for now, invader, but let me tell of an issue I've noticed...
Windows Explorer does not pass Japanese/Asian characters (in the file name) to the executing programs correctly when you double click the file via Explorer.
I have a few Japanese files, and having Japanese characters inside the file is no problem. The problem is when the names are in Japanese. Word (with any other program through OpenWith) goes and says invalid file/file not found, etc. When you use the Open menu via Word, it is able to open the Japanese file, but Norton AV says that a virus was found. (It is the "" virus, by the way. Just empty quotes) I know there is no virus, so I click Ignore, and the file loads.
I don't think that you were opening up files with Japanese names, but this was just something that I thought people should know. Double clicking the file doesn't always work in every case. You may have to use the program's open file menu at times.
-Tim_axe
Is that file is locked using some unprintable ASCII characters? If so, i think You can't be able to copy it to any other location.
Any body has a thought of such a problem. Usually, In dos, files are renamed using ASCII unprintable characters like a password with only few combinations..
what's this about file filtering. how exactly does it work?
btw invader glad u solved ur prob. =P