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Windows Refusing to “Open With” Using Notepad++ Portable…

Posted on by dk

So, fed-up with an outdated, “sanctified” version of Notepad++ “published” by the IT team at my workplace on my work laptop, I uninstalled the published version, grabbed a copy of the portable version (choose the appropriate .zip or .7z package) and proceeded to live happily ever after…

Well… Not quite… Whenever I attempted to use Windows Explorer’s “Open with…” context menu option, attempting to select the Notepad++ portable’s executable would not have any result – the dialogue would just continue to sit there…

After some soul Google searching, I stumbled across the solution.

The registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++.exe\shell\open\command was still pointing at the uninstalled, (now) non-existent executable. Pointing it to the correct location made Notepad++ show up immediately as one of the selectable applications.

First Post!

Posted on by kw

Hello Everyone, this is our first post, not necessarily techie, but we all need to start somewhere.  In the near future, we will be looking at reviewing gadgets, IT equipment, software applications or basically anything that runs on electricity (that we have/used or using) and give you our point of views.

OK, so enough of the posting for now, let us dig up what gadgets we have or am using and let you know what we think how well (or not) they are.!