"Edit with Notepad++" under Windows 11

Dennis Pries

Maybe you know it already, but they build a new API for the context menu:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extending-the-context-menu-and-share-dialog-in-windows-11/

JamesWebb

@donho said in "Edit with Notepad++" under Windows 11:

I’ve got emails/private messages from users complain about Edit with Notepad++ in the explorer’s context menu under Windows 11.
I’ll see what I can do about it when I get Windows 11. In the meantime, here’s a solution:
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/windows-11-classic-context-menus

I don’t use this method (get back classic menu!). I am waiting for “NP++” update to add this option to new Win 11 context menu. If you implement this option to “NP++” would it be practical for “NP++ Portable Minimal” version too. I am using this version since years ago and I added “NP++” to right click with registry hack (it appears by right click on any file type).

Alan Kilborn

@ten2120

I am waiting for “NP++” update to add this option

There are so many ways to do this, under the differing OSes that I hope Notepad++ developers DON’T spend their time on something like this. And, given this history, I don’t think they will.

I added “NP++” to right click with registry hack (it appears by right click on any file type).

YES! This is the way to go.

Saurav Baral

Hello, will you be able to direct me to the modification that needs to be made to the registry to enable this? The methods I found while googling changed the classic context menu, not the windows 11 one.

JamesWebb

@saurav-baral They didn’t implement NP++ to new Win 11 context menu yet, but you can bring back classic (Win 10) context menu and add NP++ to that (“How to …” link below):

https://bit.ly/3nZrAiU

David 3

A workaround is to use these reg keys:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\pintohome]
"MUIVerb"="Edit with Notepad++"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\pintohome\command]
(Default)="<npp install path>\notepad++.exe" "%1"

Works like a charm for me. The only thing is that we cannot change the icon.

Idea taken from here:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127365#issuecomment-1027855938

JamesWebb

@david-3 Many thanks. Just the “Quick Access” icon! I had tried some tweaks in “registry” to change it too but didn’t work yet. If I solve the problem (icon) I would share it here.

highlander01

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Christian Sennhauser

May be enough for some of you, until it’s integrated to NPP:
You can use “Shift”+“Right-Click” to open the Classic Menu directly, without any other modification/Registry-Hack…

Regards
Christian

Bilbo47

Other terrific options:

FileMenu Tools by LopeSoft
Types File Type Editor by Evgeny Strunnikov

PeterJones

We do not need a list of additional tools which hack the registry in some form or another (especially when those link to tools that were designed in the WinXP era, so will not work on Windows 11 for the same reason that the Notepad++ registry settings does not work on Windows 11).

The correct solutions for Windows 11 are

~~Shift+RightClick in Windows Explorer~~ does not work in all versions of Win 11
Shift+F10 in Windows Explorer
The registry edits recommended in this discussion and in the Notepad++ Online User Manual at https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/other-resources/#windows-11-right-click-workarounds

To avoid this discussion becoming a spammy list of links, it is being locked.