Well, I left everything open waiting for a reply here, and the next day it caused the entire PC to crash. Was a weird crash, not a blue screen or anything I have seen before, the desktop icons were gone, the Drive showed No activity, and there was a partially formed Crash Report popup. It pointed to being about WavePad because the 'Will not save' popup came coming up when I clicked on most anything, and several other issues... the program was not on the screen but showed active on the tab bar.
So I had to restart to get anything to function.
Now when clicking on shortcut icon to open WavePad the following popup comes up...
“This file does not have the same version as this version of WavePad or it is corrupted.'
When I click OK, the program opens, it appears ok, and I can open the project I was working on when it crashed. I did lose all the editing I hade done.
... now this is odd, as I'm typing here, with WavePat open also, the functions with typing were erratic, so I closed WordPad... and now I can type just fine.
OK, I deleted the folder as you advised, and the program opened without the popup I referred to here.
I opened WordPad again, and the typing functions got weird again.
Should I just uninstall and reinstall the program?