How to uninstall/reinstall Wordpad

A neat trick to reveal hidden Windows components

  1. Start
  2. Run
  3. %SystemRoot%\Inf\sysoc.inf, and press OK
  4. In the Notepad that opens up, remove HIDE from:
    MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,HIDE,7
    so that it looks like this:
    MSWordPad=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wordpad.inf,,7
  5. Save
  6. Close Notepad
  7. Start
  8. Control Panel
  9. Add Remove Programs
  10. Add Remove Windows Components (on the left side)
  11. Highlight Accessories and Utilities, click Details
  12. Highlight Accessories, click Details
  13. Scroll down to Wordpad and uncheck it
  14. Click OK

When done, do steps 10-14 again, but this time check it so that it installs. Have your windows disk handy.

How to uninstall/reinstall Wordpad
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User Contributed Comments:
I guess this works in pre-Vista versions of Windows because the sysoc.inf file does not exist in Vista.
Vlad - Thursday March 11th 2010 at 08:54 PM
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