Yeah, ya' stepped on it M8.

The right app for the job in the Windoze world would be Notepad...if memory serves. However, perhaps your pc is trying to tell you that prefers LXLE?

So the problem is apparently the use of Internet Explorer with this message board, since Firefox seems to work.  thanks - I'll remember that, although it's inconvenient since I use Internet Explorer for everything else. 
I typed this message directly into the message box; if you see this message, then that works also with Firefox. 

@Zaka He's just saying the forums don't work well with IE, and while I should be concerned, I'm actually not, I stop supporting that OS and browser years ago. If something doesn't work in Windows or IE it could be anything, honestly.

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I have tried literally for years to use some version of LINUX; LXLE
is the first distro that has actually installed and come up, so I am
interested in it. But my day job is Windows and it's not feasible
or practical to change. That's why I sometimes post on the LXLE
forums with Windows/IE/MS Word when it's handier to do that than to
bring up LXLE. It's your distro and you can do what you want with
it; but obviously I'm not installing it on my other PC's until I'm
sure it works, and if a basic feature such as the Help forums don't
work in some situations, even when you know the problem, that
suggests that other things may not work or won't be fixed. So
that's a possible obstacle to Windows users or anybody else, and, of
course, Bill Gates is happy with any obstacles to LINUX usage.
Nevertheless, LXLE does seem to work, so thanks for that, and I plan
to keep experimenting with it, but I do think it would be in your
own best interest to fix basic (likely simple) problems, especially
when new users notice them. But it's your system, not mine.

1. A final comment:
   I have tried literally for years to use some version of LINUX; LXLE
   is the first distro that has actually installed and came up, so I am
   interested in it. But my day job is Windows and it's not feasible
   or practical to change. That's why I sometimes post on the LXLE
   forums with Windows/IE/MS Word when it's handier to do that than to
   bring up LXLE. It's your distro and you can do what you want with
   it; but obviously I'm not installing it on my other PC's until I'm
   sure it works, and if a basic feature such as the Help forums don't
   work in some situations, even when you know the problem, that
   suggests that other things may not work or won't be fixed. So
   that's a possible obstacle to Windows users or anybody else, and, of
   course, Bill Gates is happy with any obstacles to LINUX usage.
   Nevertheless, LXLE does seem to work, so thanks for that, and I plan
   to keep experimenting with it, but I do think it would be in your
   own best interest to fix basic (likely simple) problems, especially
   when new users notice them. But it's your system, not mine.
   

   
   

@RogerF LXLE Support and Development resources have to prioritize tasks and typically the bugs that affect many users will get worked on as a priority; currently this is relatively low priority and it also has a work-around, so it is not a 'show stopper'. For now it will remain as an open problem and we'll wait to see how many other LXLE users report it. Thank you for trying LXLE.