Hello, @pellelin and All, @pellelin, I’m not going to give up ! Of course, the present Total.txt file, for test, was only 5.54 Kb and, probably, your own Total .txt file has a much greater size ! Now, you could send me an example of your real Total.txt file by two means : To my e-mail address at tguy.038@gmail.com By publishing it on your Google-Drive account, with an access to myself or anyone ! There is surely a way to get the regex, or a similar one, to work nicely against your real file ! Note that , sometimes, in case of a very huge file, a regex may display an error message, saying that a complexity state has been reached and that the search/replacement cannot be achieved :-(( However, there’s generally a way to modify this regex replacement in such a way that it could be finally done correctly ! Best Regards, guy038 P.S. : At the end of our story, I’ll explain you, in detal, how the regex replacement works !

Explained with a proposed fix at https://github.com/ffes/nppsnippets/issues/77#issuecomment-4602799602

@PeterJones Hi Peter, No there is only ever the 2 forms of the lines. I usually applut a lex sort then remove duplicate lines. So I would end up with: G7ODA,IO93WS, G7ODA,IO93WS,PE, P01AZ,IO55WS, P01AZ,IO55WS,XY, I can sort again after as that takes split second. Thanks for the suggestion, I shall try that.

@PeterJones - Yes! It works that way for me, too. That’s the magic bullet - have Windows to add it to the Open With list, which triggers creating the file in AutomaticDestinations\ which will then start collecting file names. I now have my jump list back. Thanks for helping me puzzle this through. I have a few files that I use daily and this makes my work flow much more efficient.

@jabcreations said: The only “people” using 800x600 these days are bots. That’s an absurd exaggeration. Whether or not there’s anyone on 800x600, there are plenty of people still using 1920x1080 monitors. (In case you don’t believe me, per April 2026 Steam HW/SW survey, more than 50% of Steam users are running at 1920x1080. So it’s still reasonable behavior for more than half of users – and that’s skewed toward gamers, who are more likely to have “fancy” tech; I am confident that in general, even higher percentage is still using 1920x1080.) Did I miss something or does this need to be a feature request? Could it be improved for 4K users? Likely (I’ve never used a 4K monitor, so I have no experience). There’s a long-open set of 4K issues in the official tracker, and it wouldn’t surprise me if this were already one of the open issues remaining… You might want to search the 4K issues in the repo to see if it already exists. But in the meantime, what’s your OS display scaling set to. Normally, with 4K, it’s somewhere in the 150% to 200%, IIRC from other posts. But if you’re at 100%, then of course GUI elements will be tiny.

@peterjones Yes, mostly the issue is for end user. Thanks for complete explanation!

@smcclosr said: Not 100% user if this version addressed this specific issue, It almost definitely did not. The changes between 8.9.6 and 8.9.6.1, as announced in the forum and by looking at the git-diff at GitHub, were completely related to vulnerability fixes (COPYDATASTRUCT, removing commandLineInterpreter hidden config file option, and making it harder for saved-Run-menu entries from shortcuts.xml to run apps from non-approved directories), and do not seem in any way related to OneDrive. (And least, I don’t see how any of them could affect saving of files to OneDrive) My guess was the change in v8.9.6 that changed behavior relative to v8.9.5 was the “saving dirty read-only files” fix (but that’s just a guess… and it wasn’t changed/reverted in v8.9.6.1, so that doesn’t seem a plausible explanation for your experience.) but it is resolved for me now. Hopefully it stays that way. Good luck.

Thank You Everyone for your Time and Effort.

@PeterJones Thanks!

@guy038 Just to say, I tried your solution in native N++ for kicks, and it worked! So kudos for an elegant idea. :)

Hello, @balancedcircular, @terry-r, @coises and All, I suppose that the following regex S/R should be close to what you want ! I consider the entire line because you may have other lines with attributes Name and/or Comments FIND (?-si)^(<RectangularPart Version=.+ Name=")\d\d\d (.+/.).+?(\d")(.+ Comments=").+(?=>) REPLACE $1$2$3$4$2$3 As @coises said, try this global replacement on a copy of your file ! If everything works as expected, I’ll explain you, next time, how all the regex syntax means ! Best Regards, guy038 I almost forgot the last line of your post. To simultaneously search for any of the three words Rafter, C.Tie and Web, simply use the regex (?-i)Rafter|C\.Tie|Web

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@Jeff-Esposito said in Notepad++ VERY slow to open: e gotten my new computer Notepad++ takes 40-50 seconds to launch. I have removed all plugins and don’t check recent file history at launch is checked. There are no open unsaved tabs, even though that is how I want to use it and use it on my old pc and my work laptop. the install It becomes slow when using “Show Folder As Workspace” (which displays the workspace folder on the left side). It starts quickly when this option is turned off.

Yeah, this usually happens with non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) or other Unicode space characters that look invisible but behave differently from normal spaces. Using \xA0 in regex was the right fix 👍 If you face this again, you can: Use \x{00A0} or \s to detect space variants Check in hex editor to identify exact character Then replace all in one go Also, if you’re unsure which invisible character it is, you can test different ones using tools like espaço invisível before applying them in your editor.

Honestly, this cleared up a big confusion for me. I used to think fonts were saved with the file itself, but it makes sense now that it’s just the editor displaying it differently. Also didn’t realize enabling global font overrides can mess with syntax highlighting—good catch. I’ve been tweaking text styles a lot lately while testing name formats on font generator, so this helps keep things consistent

ello, @ricardo-barroso, @peterjones, @terry-r and All, An other S/R could be : FIND (?-i)RequiredItem.+, \K\d+ REPLACE 0 The search regex means : First, find a string RequiredItem, with that exact case because of the leading part (?-i) Then find any NON-zero number of chars ( .+ ) till a comma followed with a space char Now, forget anything matched so far, due to the \K syntax And just match a non-zero list of digits ( \d+ ), which come next Finally, replace that number by 0 Remark : You must do a global S/R, using the Replace All button. Due to the \K syntax a step by step replacement, with the Replace button, would not work ! Best Regards, guy038

@PeterJones That “Stopped working” is a common overall expression there for the app crashes, hungs etc. So @mapsonx should open that “details” you mentioned or simply launch the Windows EventViewer, i.e.: press WinKey+R to invoke the Windows Run-dialog copy & paste there: eventvwr.msc /c:"Application" and click OK wait for the Event Viewer launching and attaching to OS logs search/filter there for “Error” Level records (or simply follow the ReliabilityMonitor published date/time of the N++ problem), with “notepad++.exe” within app crashes usually have as log Source “Application Error”, frozen apps “Application Hang” Then publish here what the content of such a record tell us, e.g.: Faulting application name: notepad++.exe, version: 8.9.3.0, time stamp: 0x69bc8a94 Faulting module name: USER32.dll, version: 10.0.19041.6926, time stamp: 0xcd1afcbd Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00000000000467cd Faulting process id: 0x296c Faulting application start time: 0x01dcce3ba0a16cb7 Faulting application path: ...\npp.8.9.3.portable.x64\notepad++.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\USER32.dll