i am using Windows XP SP3
when you open a text file, notepad pops up
but i want the text file to open in a text editor that I specify.
that seems easy... by going to folder options and creating associations and all [yeah! i've done that]
but here's a complicated situation:
when you edit any text-content files like say .reg .txt .log .ini .inf etc etc
you know they open with notepad "by default"
but... what i really want to do is replace the file "notepad.exe" in windows directory by notepad2
[which is much much better, i've been using it for years and i just love it]
i did this too
i deleted notepad.exe from C:\WINDOWS\ and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ and replaced it with notepad2.exe
[ofcourse by renaming notepad2.exe to notepad.exe]
now when i open a text file, the original microsoft supplied notepad.exe pops up again
it seems it has managed to re-replace the one i planted in those main directories... as if i had done nothing at all.
now how do i go past this point?
anything i should be knowing like maybe windows checks the integrity of the main exe files it has installed
and if it finds a difference, it gets the file back to original or something like that?
any work-around solution for this?
when you open a text file, notepad pops up
but i want the text file to open in a text editor that I specify.
that seems easy... by going to folder options and creating associations and all [yeah! i've done that]
but here's a complicated situation:
when you edit any text-content files like say .reg .txt .log .ini .inf etc etc
you know they open with notepad "by default"
but... what i really want to do is replace the file "notepad.exe" in windows directory by notepad2
[which is much much better, i've been using it for years and i just love it]
i did this too
i deleted notepad.exe from C:\WINDOWS\ and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ and replaced it with notepad2.exe
[ofcourse by renaming notepad2.exe to notepad.exe]
now when i open a text file, the original microsoft supplied notepad.exe pops up again
it seems it has managed to re-replace the one i planted in those main directories... as if i had done nothing at all.
now how do i go past this point?
anything i should be knowing like maybe windows checks the integrity of the main exe files it has installed
and if it finds a difference, it gets the file back to original or something like that?
any work-around solution for this?
