Impossible to open with WordPad Readme.wri files

original title:

Literally.

I have an old 16-bit game that came with a readme readme.WRI format. However, when opening with WordPad, there a lot of garbage in the file. (We, the waste were actually OLE images).

What happened and why?

The problem?

Windows XP SP2 off the converters!

The solution is here; a simple registry edit!  :)

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/883090

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