Make sure you open the Program Files folder and not Program Files (x86). Double-click the "Accessories" folder and double-click the "wordpad.exe" file to launch WordPad.

If you want to execute a task from the command line in Windows, you first have to open Command Prompt. Here are 11 ways to do that.

Firefox does not allow you to directly open exe files, presumably for security reasons. I would like to be able to do this.