Well, Uninstalling Cetus wordpad seemed to corrupt numerous files- most of the programs became inoperative, so I did a reformat & reinstall, but it's still doing weird things- unbelievably slow, sometimes won't recognize the CD-ROM drive... which is a junkbox unit, but the only internal one I have.
I keep seeing strange things, like after a format, even though a "dir" will show no files other than system files, when I reinstall win 95, information like username will reappear!
Maybe it needs to be formatted with the discs.