dbbuild19

Hello, I just joined today. I purchased this computer (MS XP MCE 2002) almost a year ago but only connected it to the internet a couple of days ago. I have created word documents over the last few months and saved them to 'my documents'. I have always been able to open them to make changes or "save as". I would then save to a disc and transfer to my other computer. I went to create a document today by opening an existing document to "save as". I could not open any of the word documents. When I double clicked to open, the hour glass would appear and after nothing else would happen I would click on the close box and the 'program not resonding' box appeared. I then noticed that some documents were now "Microsoft Office Document Image". I can only view these documents. I have no idea how this happened. All documents were created in 'Word'. I then noticed that one document was a 'HTML Document'. I'm guessing maybe someone sent me this document in this format. But I do not know what HTML is. I also created a document today and saved it to 'my documents', and can't open it either. As I stated, I just got on the internet with this computer the other day and have been getting swamped with different programs that need to be registered or updates. I have pretty much registered them all or downloaded the various upgrades. I don't know if this has created problems. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. Dave