Hello, Картошка с луком,

Here is, below, an other simple method :

Go to the C:\Windows\System32 folder

Right-click and create a new shortcut, just called NP

Choose, as target, the absolute path of Notepad++.exe

Probably, choose to start this program in the N++ installation folder

Then, to run Notepad++.exe :

Start the Windows Run menu, with the Windows key + R shortcut

Just type NP and valid

=> N++ should start, at once, regardless to your present location :-)

As for me, it works fine, with a portable N++ installation, from an archive file, on a Win XP machine :-)

However, you may come across some related problems, with the W7/W8 configurations and/or the N++ Installer. I couldn’t test these cases as I don’t have, presently, any W7/W8 machine available ( I’m still, in Summer Holidays, guys, Ah, Ah ! )

Best Regards,

guy038

Thanks to the help.
The old way was better to identify. I work with support and sometimes they sent me some files wrongly encoded and in the system the recommendation is UTF-8 without BOM.

What language were you writing, and did you save it with a file name with the appropriate suffix - e.g. MyProg.java if you were writing Java code.

Perhaps you didn’t give it a suffix until after you saved it away, and next time you edit the file it will respond to the suffix.

You really need to give some more details.

More than likely this is possible but you’d have to take the time to write a plugin to do it.

Settings–>Preferences–>MISC.
Near bottom right corner you will find the “Highlight Matching Tags” checkboxes…

using XP is far bigger of a concern, what do you think limited use on XP is actually achieving?

The spell checking is often very useful when editing code, and underlining URL’s seems pretty harmless. Those URL’s open if you double click them - which can be extremely useful even within code - and the underlining alerts you to the fact that this is possible. I find it handy to put URL’s inside C comments, and sometimes code opens a URL, and it is convenient to check the URL by double clicking. Why would you ever not want the option to open a URL that is embedded in your text? Without the spell checker, I would never find odd spelling errors buried in rarely used error messages!

Defaulting features to OFF has the disadvantage that busy people probably never discover they exist!

Maybe it would help if users could vote for or against proposed changes - my bet is that a LOT of people are very happy with the vast majority of NP++features!