Error when opening a downloaded document in WordPad- Windows 98

[Sarah Jane]

I'm using Windows 98. Whenever I try to open or view a
document from another person I get "This program has
performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." It
does not happen when I open a document that I've created
myself. The deatils of the error message say

WORDPAD caused an invalid page fault in
module MSWRD832.CNV at 017f:0140f6d5.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=017f EIP=0140f6d5 EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00410000 SS=0187 ESP=0119f94c EBP=0119f960
ECX=00410ffc DS=0187 ESI=00410fff FS=59bf
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=0143bf7c GS=6166
Bytes at CS:EIP:
66 8b 1e 83 c6 02 0f b7 cb 8d 45 fc 50 51 e8 38
Stack dump:
004106a8 00000000 00410396 0042041e 00000008 0119f988
014125b4 00410420 0000fffe 00000002 00000000 00000000
00000000 0000016a 00410396 0119f9cc


When I click close I get the error message again. Clicking
close again finally shuts down the entire program. Could
it be that the files I'm trying to open are sent from
people using later Windows programs such as 2000 or XP?
Any suggests, apart from telling me to upgrade this is,
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

WordPad is a Windows accessory. This NG is for Word. Please ask your
question in a Windows 98 NG.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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