@patrickdrd

Windows has a builtin way to specify the starting directory for any shortcut you run – and I am assuming that since you claim to be loading a blank NPP window, you’re loading from a shortcut instead of from a Right Click menu.

To change the Windows default directory, Right Click on your shortcut, select Properties (‡), go to the Start In field, and enter the directory you’d like to be your default

‡: For a normal shortcut, like on your desktop, you just have to select Properties. If the shortcut is pinned to your taskbar (like it is for me), RClick, then RClick on “notepad++” near the bottom of the menu, then select Properties. If it’s in your Start Menu (either pinned to the quick start area, or if you go down to N > Notepad++), then RClick on the icon, select More, select Open File Location; this should open Windows Explorer in the directory where that shortcut actually lives. In that Windows Explorer, you can RClick on Notepad++ shortcut and select the Properties, as above.

@PeterJones , thank you very much Mr. PeterJones

I, too, think portable for one is probably your best choice.

If you want to primarily use 32-bit, but start experimenting with 64-bit, then I would leave 32-bit installed, and run 64-bit from portable. If you want to primarily use 64-bit, but want 32-bit available for non-64b plugins, then install 64-bit, check registry settings (64bit on Win10 doesn’t always associate properly: see this thread and others it references), then put 32-bit into a portable directory. This should keep all your 64-bit settings the same as you used to have on 32-bit.

After making the portable directory, you’ll then need to install plugins for your portable (as @chcg said). Also, if you want the same settings, you can copy the XML configuration files from %AppData%\Notepad++ to the portable directory.

Good luck.

Which version of N++ are you using?
7.5.9?
Installation for all users or per user?
See also https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15739/faq-desk-request-for-help-without-sufficient-information-to-help-you

@guy038 , thanks you

Thanks! MINDBLOWN :O :O :O

@Guido-Brinkman

And please search for this first in the reported bugs, before creating a new one. I’m sure it already exists…and you can add any new info to an existing issue if you think it is deficient.

@Terry-R said:

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Thank you very much Terry-R. Worked perfectly.

I’ve tested 10 lists and everything is as I wanted it to be.

Thank you again.

Claudio

Hello, @tokiedian-steelpanthers,

Your default Noto Mono font does not reproduce the glyphs of the Unicode IPA Extensions block characters, below :

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf

Here are, below, a table with a summary of some monospaced fonts, which represent all IPA extensions characters, properly

For the record, you may, also, refer to :

The two MS Mincho and MS Gothic fonts, which can handle the Japanese Hiragana and Katakata characters

The proportional  fonts Lucida Sans Unicode and Microsoft Sans Serif, which both support the IPA Extensions characters, too

•----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | Font Name | Version | Glyphs | Digit 0 | Serif | Download link | •----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | Code New Roman | 2.10 | 2,740 | Slashed | | http://www.fontspace.com/download/21129/7aaebf327a7240b98dabadef5d1bc786/typostyle_code-new-roman.zip | | Consola Mono | 2.001 | 1,465 | Slashed | | https://fontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/consolamono/61cc2afcc4eca96efe7c6ebf178d39df/consolamono.zip | | Cousine | 1.20 | 2,385 | Dotted | | https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/cousine | | DET Terminal Modern | 1.0 | 2,218 | | | https://dl.dafont.com/dl/?f=dec_terminal_modern | | DejaVu Sans Mono | 2.37 | 3,377 | Dotted | | http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/2.37/dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.37.zip | | Espresso Mono | 2.17 | 2,870 | Slashed | | https://github.com/jmazzi/dotfiles/tree/master/.fonts | | FreeMono | 0412 2268 | 4,177 | | Yes | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/freefont-ttf-20120503.zip | | Iosevka | 2.0.0 | 3,712 | Slashed | | https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases | | Iosevka Slab | 2.0.0 | 3,712 | Slashed | Yes | https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases | | Meslo LG M | 1.210 | 2,708 | Slashed | | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip | | Meslo LG S | 1.210 | 2,708 | Slashed | | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip | | Meslo LG M DZ | 1.210 | 2,708 | Dotted | | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip | | Meslo LG S DZ | 1.210 | 2,708 | Dotted | | https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font/archive/master.zip | •----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | MS Gothic | 5.10 | 22,290 | | | | | MS Mincho | 5.10 | 19,398 | | Yes | | •----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------• | Lucida Sans Unicode | 5.00 | 1,779 | | | | | Microsoft Sans Serif | 5.11 | 3,205 | | | | •----------------------•-----------•--------•---------•-------•-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•

Cheers,

guy038

What are large files in you case? At least the 64 bit version of N++ should do better on that compared to the 32bit one.

See also https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/681