That's odd. What Service Pack do you have installed? I thought WordPad was part of a default WinXP install. On my machine, the Shortcut resides in Start->All Programs->Accessories->WordPad. The actual executable can be found in "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe". I never use Notepad. WordPad is so much better. I sometimes prefer WordPad over MS-Word for typing up a quick letter. But usually I edit text files with vim (or even cream) on WinXP.