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All of a sudden all my text files (.text) come up with the message "Invalid
Menu Handle".

Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed which I have set to open
with two panes. Clicking on any text file via PD6 gives me the above error
message but if I open the text files in any other application,Wordpad,
Notepad, Word, etc. I can read them. So, as PD6 seemed to be the culprit I
uninstalled, rebooted and re-installed. Still doesn't work. Any suggestions
what may have happened. All other files, folders and applications open fine
in PD6. It is just the text files gone belly up.

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"Mo F" <> wrote in message
news:gWcBj.20036$...
> All of a sudden all my text files (.text) come up with the message
> "Invalid Menu Handle".
>
> Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed which I have set
> to open with two panes. Clicking on any text file via PD6 gives me the
> above error message but if I open the text files in any other
> application,Wordpad, Notepad, Word, etc. I can read them. So, as PD6
> seemed to be the culprit I uninstalled, rebooted and re-installed.
> Still doesn't work. Any suggestions what may have happened. All other
> files, folders and applications open fine in PD6. It is just the text
> files gone belly up.
>
Rt/click on a text file, and go to Properties.
What is set to Open text files ?.

"Mo F" wrote in message
news:gWcBj.20036$...
> All of a sudden all my text files (.text) come up with the message
> "Invalid Menu Handle".
>
> Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed which I have set
> to open with two panes. Clicking on any text file via PD6 gives me
> the above error message but if I open the text files in any other
> application,Wordpad, Notepad, Word, etc. I can read them. So, as
> PD6 seemed to be the culprit I uninstalled, rebooted and
> re-installed. Still doesn't work. Any suggestions what may have
> happened. All other files, folders and applications open fine in
> PD6. It is just the text files gone belly up.


Text files are just, well, text. There is no program within them
(although they can represent code that something else can run). You
telephone book doesn't make calls for you either.

The problem looks to be with Powerdesk. Maybe a recent Windows update
caused a problem with Powerdesk. Seems like asking VCom about their
product would be the best route to get help on their product.

Mo F wrote:

> All of a sudden

Every time I see that phrase, I am tempted to ask, "What did you do to
the computer immediately before 'all of a sudden'?"

> all my text files (.text) come up with the message "Invalid
> Menu Handle".

All my text files have the extension: .txt
Do yours? Or are they really .text ?

> Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed

Do you experience the same problem when using Windows Explorer?

If not, call the PowerDesk people.

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-bts
-all of a sudden my sig line got busted

Yep. The first response was the one that kicked my arse. Why didn't I think
of that? There was NOTHING set to open my text files. Don't ask me why. I
did nothing that I can recall prior to this happening.....other than kick
the computer into submission, but then I have been doing that for years to
cure adverse effects!! First engineering principles.

I have now set .txt files (not .text, apologies) to open with Notepad and
all is back to normal. Like I said, nothing else had been affected. Aren't
computers fun!!??

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote in message
news:_udBj.737306$...
> Mo F wrote:
>
>> All of a sudden
>
> Every time I see that phrase, I am tempted to ask, "What did you do to
> the computer immediately before 'all of a sudden'?"
>
>> all my text files (.text) come up with the message "Invalid
>> Menu Handle".
>
> All my text files have the extension: .txt
> Do yours? Or are they really .text ?
>
>> Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed
>
> Do you experience the same problem when using Windows Explorer?
>
> If not, call the PowerDesk people.
>
> --
> -bts
> -all of a sudden my sig line got busted

Mo F "contributed" in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

> I have now set .txt files (not .text, apologies) to open with Notepad

You should have done that in the first place, without bothering the entire
world with your retarded questions.

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Your mother was a bedraggled petrol-pump attendant who liked to do it with
strangers in a closely guarded military establishment.

Mo F added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

> Yep. The first response was the one that kicked my arse. Why
> didn't I think of that? There was NOTHING set to open my text
> files. Don't ask me why. I did nothing that I can recall prior
> to this happening.....other than kick the computer into
> submission, but then I have been doing that for years to cure
> adverse effects!! First engineering principles.
>
> I have now set .txt files (not .text, apologies) to open with
> Notepad and all is back to normal. Like I said, nothing else
> had been affected. Aren't computers fun!!??

Depends on your idea of "fun", Mo! <grin> Seriously, I have
always found that computers of all types do exactly what you tell
them to - if they can - NOT necessarily what you want. In this
case, your PC unfortunately was doing what you told it, i.e.,
don't associate anything to .txt files. In all likelihood,
though, this was properly associated way back when at install and
something over time deleted it.

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote
> in message
> news:_udBj.737306$.
> ..
>> Mo F wrote:
>>
>>> All of a sudden
>>
>> Every time I see that phrase, I am tempted to ask, "What did
>> you do to the computer immediately before 'all of a sudden'?"
>>
>>> all my text files (.text) come up with the message "Invalid
>>> Menu Handle".
>>
>> All my text files have the extension: .txt
>> Do yours? Or are they really .text ?
>>
>>> Windows XP Pro.....and I have PowerDesk 6 installed
>>
>> Do you experience the same problem when using Windows
>> Explorer?
>>
>> If not, call the PowerDesk people.
>>
>> --
>> -bts
>> -all of a sudden my sig line got busted
>
>
>



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"Surely you jest - and don't call me Shirley!" - from the movie
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