Thank you Ms. Howard,

I have tried that a number of times. I still receive the same error message:

Windows Journal cannot start. There was an error initializing inking
components. If this problem persists after restarting, contact your system
administrator.

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> Make sure you are logged in with administrator rights, then
>
> start/run/cmd
>
> then navigate to C:\Program Files\Windows Journal by;
>
> CD "C:\Program Files\Windows Journal"
>
> then type
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> journal.exe /repairnotewriter
>
> above from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824385
>
> Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]
>