WordPad is not opening a .rtf girl when the file is double clicked.

Windows XP Service pack 3: My Wordpad will directly open a file .rtf given from "Open file" in the Wordpad program but after setting the default file options in the control panel and then double-click the file .rtf even, I get... "the file xx.rtf is not a valid Win32 application."  Any suggestions?

Hi Ray,

We will do a right-click on the RTF file and select Open with, select Wordpad and check if you get the error message.
 
You can also try to define Wordpad as default option "choose default program" and check.

a. right click on the RTF file, click Open with to choose the program you want.

b. point to Open withand then click Choose program to choose the program you want.

c. the Open with dialog box appears. Use one of the following methods to select the program you want to use for this file type:

d. in the list of programs , click the program you want to use.

e. click Browse, find and then click the program you want to use, and then click Open.

f. click look for the appropriate program on the Web to browse the Internet for the program that you want to use.

g. Click to select the check box for always use the selected program to open this kind of file if it is not selected.

h. click OK.

Also check out this link:

How to change or choose the program that starts when you double-click a file in Windows XP

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307859

I hope this helps!

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