Open Windows Write (WRI) files on Windows 11 using legacy versions of WordPad
In my previous post a few years ago, I found that CWordPad, a WordPad clone for Windows 98, can open
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Missing menu bar when running Go-oo Office 2.4.1 on Windows 98 with VBEMP
Recently when installing Go-oo Office v2.4.1 on my old laptop that is running Windows 98 with the VBEMP 9x driver
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Setting up a modern laser printer to work with Windows 98 using D-Link LPR client
I bought a Brother MFC-L2750DW laser printer which supports connection via USB, Ethernet as well as Wifi and wanted to
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Jarte, a lightweight minimalist word processor
I am a fan of lightweight word processors and personally enjoy using them on my old laptops. Why would one
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PolyEdit, an editor for DOC/DOCX/RTF on Windows 95/98/XP
During my previous quest for an application that can open DOCX files on Windows 98, I came across PolyEdit, a
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Open Windows Write (.WRI) files on modern versions of Windows with CWordPad
I have an old software that frequently generates reports in Windows Write (.WRI) format, which cannot be opened using modern
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Office Reader 2.0, the best Word/Excel/Powerpoint/RTF/PDF viewer with superb backwards compatibility
Microsoft used to give free viewers for Office files (.DOC/,DOCX/.XLS/.XLSX/.PPT/.PPTX) as well as for Visio files (.VSD), These viewers work
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Open Office 2007 documents on Windows 98
On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional
Read moreConverting an Outlook Form Template (OFT) to a .NET Windows form in Visual Studio
In one of my work projects, I was assigned with the task of developing a standalone Windows form application to
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1. Install Office XP/2003/2007 2. Add COM reference to Microsoft Outlook 10/11/12 Object Library Imports msoutlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook ‘read Dim
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