[thelist] Killing Note Pad!
Karen Bowen
KarenB at FrontierSoftware.com.au
Fri Feb 2 06:57:37 CST 2001
there's another key that sets the path for 'NOTEPAD.EXE' -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\NOTEPAD.EXE
I *think* without changing this to point to metapad, you won't get metapad
replacements. But you may have already done this. Or I may be way off the
track. :-)
HTH
Karen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank [SMTP:framar at interlog.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:13 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Killing Note Pad!
>
> >> Can someone tell me how to use any other text editor
> >> than Notepad to view source? I've changed it in
> >> explorer's tools menu, and in the folder options. The
> >> #^&$ piece of junk keep blighting my life.
>
> > Open RegEdit and look for "NOTEPAD.EXE %1". Change to
> > your favorite editor (leave the %1 in there).
>
> I replaced every instance with METAPAD.EXE (keeping ' %1') and though
> everything else has changed, explorer still uses notepad. So I
> trashed it, thinking that explorer would be smart enough to ask me
> for a replacement. It has instead decided to barf up some error
> messages regarding it's unavailability.
>
> Now is it me, or is it MS commitment to using notepad exclusively?
> Did I miss something?
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