Wordpad loses pasted images after reopening

This is affecting just one computer of many I have access to, all running Windows XP Professional. I copy a selection from an image in MSPaint then paste into Wordpad. I save, close and reopen and the image and any text after it is gone. The image selection is generally small in size.

I can do exactly the same operation on the other computers and everything works fine.
I found one example of someone else on the internet having the same problem but he didn't get a solution.
A program we use that uses a richtextbox is exhibiting the same problem, again only on this computer.
Finally MS Word is also installed and it has no problems.
It doesn't happen ALL the time just most of the time and it only seems to have started recently

user52032

Posted 2010-10-11T19:08:40.520

Reputation: 121

If you cannot recreate the conditions exactly every time, then it is likely that you are not understanding the problem correctly. – None – 2010-10-11T21:38:19.370

That's true but so far it's the bug that's reproducible not normal behaviour, that happens on a seemingly random basis. – user52032 – 2010-10-11T21:56:09.433

Answers

I have a similar issue with a machine here. I found that by first putting in a different image (hand drew a picture in mspaint, cut and paste part of it into the wordpad doc), it would allow me to use the other images (.jpg from a camera).

Passer By

Posted 2010-10-11T19:08:40.520

Reputation: 1

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In my case, I encountered the problem when I was trying to copy and paste images of file formats other than BMP (bitmap).

Later I converted those image files (.jpg, .jpeg, .png etc) to .bmp (bitmap) format, copied them to Wordpad, and saved it.

xfn

Posted 2010-10-11T19:08:40.520

Reputation: 1