wordpad illegal operation

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Iam unable to open wordpad attachments to my e-mail. I am using windows 98se
& IE 6. The attachment comes as "file type: application/ms word; file
download- wordpad document." The details of the illegal operation are as
follows:
wordpad caused aninvalid page fault in module MSWRD 832. CNV at 016710155f6d5
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=0155f6d5 EFLGS=00010216
EBX=00400000 SS=016f ESP=16ff95c EBP=016ff970
ECX=0040effc DS=016f ESI=0040efff FS=708f
EDX=00400000 ES=016f EDI0158bf38 GS=6c7e
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 1e 83 c6 02 0f b7 cb 8d 45 fc 50 51 e8 38
Stack dump:
0040eaec 00000000 0040e73a 0041e862 00000008
016ff998 15625b4 0040e864 004fffe 00000002
00000000 00000000 00000000 000002114 0040e73a
016ff9dc
Help, please

This is hardly a Windows Update problem but try this:

Mswrd832.cnv Error
You are trying to open a document that was created with a late version
of Word.
Wordpad is not a suitable program for opening such files.

You may get a bit more information here:
WD2000: Problems Opening Word Document in WordPad
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;276337

If you need a viewer try here:
http://office.microsoft.com/download...wd97vwr32.aspx

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windowsupdate, Bill C
<> wrote:

> In: microsoft.public.enable.issues
>
>
>
>Iam unable to open wordpad attachments to my e-mail. I am using windows 98se
>& IE 6. The attachment comes as "file type: application/ms word; file
>download- wordpad document." The details of the illegal operation are as
>follows:
>wordpad caused aninvalid page fault in module MSWRD 832. CNV at 016710155f6d5
(snip)
>Help, please
>