Hi, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse and all,
Alan, I gave it a try to verify the behavior of my very old and weak XP SP3 system, on my old NEC M350 laptop ;-))
Some time ago , for various tests, I downloaded the N++ source files, so the two folders PowerEditor and scintilla in a new folder, named Sources. With my last installed N++ release ( v7.8.3 ) I ran the following Files in Files search
Search "(?-s)the.*not" (167 hits in 45 files)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\license.txt (18 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\bin\readme.txt (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Common.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\mutex.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\Sorters.h (2 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\Common\verifySignedfile.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\MISC\PluginsManager\Notepad_plus_msgs.h (7 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyxml.h (15 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\TinyXml\tinyXmlA\tinyxmlA.h (15 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\CharDistribution.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\JpCntx.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsBig5Prober.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCharSetProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsCodingStateMachine.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nscore.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEscCharsetProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCJPProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCKRProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsEUCTWProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsGB2312Prober.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsHebrewProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsLatin1Prober.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsMBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsPkgInt.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCharSetProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSBCSGroupProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsSJISProber.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUniversalDetector.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\nsUTF8Prober.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\prmem.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\uchardet\uchardet.h (4 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\Utf8_16.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\PluginsAdmin\pluginsAdmin.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\PowerEditor\src\WinControls\shortcut\shortcut.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\PlatCocoa.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\cocoa\ScintillaView.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\doc\Lexer.txt (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\include\Platform.h (2 hits)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\License.txt (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\AutoComplete.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\CaseConvert.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Document.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\Style.h (1 hit)
D:\@@\770\Sources\scintilla\src\ViewStyle.h (1 hit)
Presently, my current session already contained 36 opened files, in various folders
The search directory was D:\@@\770\Sources and the filters zone contained *.txt *.h. All the search was done in 1,9 s
Note that the total size, of these 45 files, is not very important : 336,206 bytes
The opening, within N++, of these 45 files, with the Open All option, took 3,09 s Then, I just have to use 45 times the Ctrl + W shortcut to get rid of all these additional test files ;-))
May be, you could open the Windows Event Manager ( eventvwr.msc ), choose System, then the menu option View > Filter.... Now, tick Error events only and valid. You may also choose disk in the event source list, for an additional filtering ?
Best Regards,
guy038