Right Click Context Menu 'Edit with NotePad++' does nothing.
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Hello guys,
I wonder if anyone can help me please.
The Right Click Context Menu ‘Edit with NotePad++’ does nothing. It never has in the past couple 5 years since I have been using NotePad++.
I have gone back to working in Windows 10 as the free upgrade to 11 killed my OS (BSOD). Fortunately I had cloned the Disk to a larger one and then swapped them over so I only had to swap them back to revert to Windows 10 - which has never caused me an issue.
NotePad++ is a excellent application and I use it everyday to save and edit TEXT regarding my family tree. However occasionally I want to right click and edit it with NotePAd++ but this has never worked even through all the updates - Why? Surely someone has mentioned this before?
Can anyone advise as it would be nice to fix it.
Thank you.
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Surely someone has mentioned this before?
If it didn’t work for anyone, then yes, obviously, someone would have mentioned it before. The fact that no one has mentioned it (or very few) indicates that, in reality, it works for the vast majority of people who use it.
I use it on a daily basis, and have for years, and it’s always worked for me, both on my old Win10 setups I used to use and my new Win11 machine.
If you want help debugging why it’s not working for you, please go into your ?-menu and choose Debug Info, then copy that information and paste it here – that will give us specific version-info about your N++, as well as other useful information that helps us understand your setup. Once we know a little more about your setup, we might be able to start giving insight or hazarding guesses.
The biggest and most obvious culprit – so frequent that it actually has a paragraph in the Online User Manual – is that if you’re running Notepad++ “as Admin” (it would have “Administrator” in the title bar, and the Debug Info would tell us if you were, even if you didn’t know), then the shell extension’s Edit with Notepad++ action might not be able to open the file into Notepad++.
Beyond that, I would probably suggest trying to un-register the shell extension then re-register it (both those steps are here in the User Manual)… but before I could give specifics to help you through that process, I would need to know what version you were using and where your Notepad++ was installed (again, through the Debug Info)
So, other than “check to make sure Notepad++ is not in Administrator mode”, I cannot give any solid advice until you share your Debug Info.
