same issue using a remote session to a windows 11 desktop with no monitor connected using chrome remote desktop

NPP version 8.9.4

fixed with:
Settings -> Preferences -> MISC -> Rendering Mode = change to "GDI (most compatible) -> Close

Restart NPP

@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

@Ronald-Besdansky Hi Terry Deleting that plugin fixed the issue. Thanks.

@Lars-Hesselberg said:

the Find dialog seems to pop up where it left at last Find.

This seems very reasonable to me.

…sometimes a “Seek & find”!

Shouldn’t be…it’s where you “left (it) at last Find”.

Summary: Put it where you want it to appear always, and it will always appear in that same spot.

@William-Fields said in Curse of the Curly Quotes:

When pasting code into NP++ from another source, no matter what I do, if the source has curly quotes, the pasted content has curly quotes.

Right. That’s because the curly quote characters have different codepoints from ASCII quotemarks.

It’s doing the right thing.

If you want to convert, then use a regular expression:
FIND = [“”]
REPLACE = "
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression
REPLACE ALL

change all curly quotes to straight quotes when opening documents or pasting content

There’s no such command or option in Notepad++, because that would be Notepad++ changing characters from one codepoint to another without user interaction, which is the antithesis of text editing

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102348

The Direct Write ligature-effects from the post you showed is just the fonts changing the appearance of characters based on font ligature rules, but the underlying characters that Notepad++ is presenting are the exact same characters as found on disk. On the other hand, the curly quotes that you are copying and pasting are different characters from the ASCII quote.

@PeterJones Ah yah, I understand now. I suppose this is a fine solution, so thank you for that. This still requires some finesse to get in front of the 1st column versus just click+dragging inside the margin, but definitely better than before. 😎

@Steve-Plumlee said in Flickering screen on the latest edit that i've made (like a preview of current and previous state):

@GM-Bobby-B Hi I am having the same experience. I suspect this is a new “Feature” but I have been unable to determine where the setting is to turn it off.

Did you ever figure it out? @Lycan-Thrope Appreciate your FAQ items but I think this is a feature that was added. Maybe one of the dev’s can answer that

Forum search didn’t result in any other posts so maybe it’s a plugin or something?

No, if the video that the original poster put in reddit last year is realy what you’re seeing, it’s not a “feature”.

@Lycan-Thrope linked to the FAQ because the original poster didn’t give enough version information to be any help. And despite thanking him for the link to the FAQ, neither did you. Share your ?-menu’s Debug Info to let us know what version you are using, and many other things that are often relevant to debugging uncommon problems.

That user has never come back to this forum since the original post, so never even saw @Lycan-Thrope’s answer. And the people in Reddit just found that changing the caret blink rate in the preferences “fixed” it for them… though that should have nothing to do with what Notepad++ displays.

My guess is that it was really a plugin causing the problem, or that the underlying cause is actually something slowing down the entire computer, causing it to refresh Notepad++'s screen at odd times.

If you think it might be a plugin, we’ve got a different FAQ which has a section on diagnosing “Possible Culprit: Plugin”: you should follow the steps included there.

I also find that OneDrive folders aren’t always turned on when you first log in/start up; that’s why I preferred using network drives over OneDrive. When you first open a OneDrive folder in File Explorer, there should be a button somewhere that toggles the drive.

@Martin-Bishop said in Notepad++ not responding:.

I followed the steps above and was certain it was a new plugin I installed earlier in the day, but the removal of plugin, creating a backup Notepad++ folder in %AppData% and completely uninstalling NP++ before reinstalling it hasn’t fixed anything.

For now, the only way to start it is to use the -noPlugin command line argument on my usual shortcut to the program.

If using -noPlugin makes it work, that means it’s one of your plugins, or an interaction between multiple plugins, causing the issue. Our freeze/crash/plugin FAQ explains how to try to isolate which plugin is the culprit.

@Rene-Balduk ,

Are you in an IT-controlled environment that requires connecting to a proxy to connect to the internet? If so, then you (or someone from IT) will need to launch Notepad++ As Admin, and set ? > Set Updater Proxy to the right value. (127.0.0.1 is your localhost – ie your own computer – and it surprises me that it would be pointing to a proxy on your own machine)

@snafu423 said:

since I use the “real” portable version it all works fine

And this is the key point of this entire thread!

@Phil-Shearer said in Download Status Page Out of Date:

hopefully it will all be good again in a week or two

As of 2026-Apr-7 (per this post), v8.9.3 has been triggered for Auto-Update, so ? > Update Notepad++ should see a new version available now.

@Claudia-Frank

Some seven years later: exactly my query too. Many thanks. 😊😊