In what format are they saved under 95? What file extension do they have?
Try saving them in another format--rich text format (save as) and then re-do
your copy. And you are opening them in Vista WordPad, right? Not Notepad.

"Hokie60" <Hokie60@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an old computer running Windows95 which has a lot of documents
>written
> with wordpad. I want to move them to a new computer running Windows Vista.
> I
> tried copying them to a disc and loading them into Documents but now they
> are
> unreadable garbage. Any suggestions????
> --
> Retired Hokie[/color]