update notepad++
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how do i update notepad++?
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@PeterJones I have a further question about the upgrading. I use the automatic update so this question isn’t very important anymore but before, I used to download the installer manually.
Then, I uninstalled the previous version and installed the new version while keeping the settings.
Is it recommended to uninstall the old version before installing the new version or is it recommended to simply install the new version over an existing old version? -
@datatraveller1 just install new version, no need to uninstall previous installed version N++.
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@Himanshu-Shivhare Thank you!
I think the Auto-Upgrade also installs over the previous version without uninstalling?
With other software, I have made the experience that it is almost always better to uninstall an older version before installing a new one but Notepad++ seems to be an exception. -
@datatraveller1 said in update notepad++:
@Himanshu-Shivhare Thank you!
I think the Auto-Upgrade also installs over the previous version without uninstalling?Correct. In that Notepad++'s auto-update feature downloads the installer from the official website and runs it for you. So it does exactly the same thing as would happen if you just downloaded the installer yourself and ran it yourself.
With other software, I have made the experience that it is almost always better to uninstall an older version before installing a new one but Notepad++ seems to be an exception.
I have not met a piece of software in the last decade or more for which that is the preferred behavior. I feel sorry for you if your poor quality of software requires you to do a full uninstall before upgrading.
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@PeterJones I only use high quality software, no need to be sarcastic.
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@datatraveller1 said in update notepad++:
no need to be sarcastic
I don’t think Peter was being sarcastic.
I think for anyone that has used computers for a long time, some old habits die hard.
With Notepad++, not only is uninstalling unnecessary, it rarely changes anything. (Some users, when they have what they think is a problem, uninstall and reinstall – it rarely clears up the problem).
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@zeta-orionis said in update notepad++:
how do i update notepad++?
To update Notepad++ on Windows, follow these steps:
Open Notepad++.
Click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar.
Click on the “Check for Updates” option in the Help menu.
If a new version is available, Notepad++ will prompt you to download and install it. Click “Yes” to start the download and installation process.
Once the download is complete, follow the on-screen instructions to install the update. Make sure to close any instances of Notepad++ that are running before installing the update.
If the “Check for Updates” option is not available in the Help menu, you can manually download the latest version of Notepad++ from the official website at https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/. Download the appropriate installer for your system (32-bit or 64-bit) and run it to install the latest version. Note that you will need to manually transfer any settings or plugins you had in the previous version to the new version after installation. -
@madara-san said in update notepad++:
Your post is a combination of summarizing what had already been said above (including what was linked in the official User Manual), and misinformation. If you don’t have anything accurate and new to add, you might want to avoid posting it.
Future readers, to correct mistakes made by @madara-san :
Click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar.
No default translation of Notepad++ has a menu named
Help. The menu is actually labeled with a question mark (?). To say otherwise only confuses newbies.If a new version is available, Notepad++ will prompt you to download and install it.
“Check for Updates” will not always show a new version. As the manual explains (https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/upgrading/), until the developer triggers auto-update for a new version, no amount of “check for updates” will show that there’s a new version available, even if you can manually download a new version from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/ . The reasoning is described in the user manual. (For example, the website currently has through v8.5.2, but the last auto-update version that “Check for Updates” will see is 8.4.8.)
Note that you will need to manually transfer any settings or plugins you had in the previous version to the new version after installation.
That is false. The Notepad++ installer / updater does not delete your old settings from
%AppData%\Notepad++, and it does not reset them; any settings you had for a previous version in the standard location will still be in effect for the newly-installed version, unless you deleted the previous settings yourself.(The statement, while false for a normal installation, is misleadingly true for the portable version: true, in that unzipping a new portable zip into a new folder will obviously not keep your settings from some other portable or installed copy – that is rather the point of the portable, after all – but misleading, in that there is no “installer” if you are using the portable zip.)
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@zeta-orionis Just press the question mark (?) button in Notepad++, located near the Windows key, and then click ‘Update Notepad++’.
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Just press the question mark (?) button in Notepad++, located near the Windows key,
The Windows key is a physical thing on the keyboard, the ? menu is a graphical element you can click in the Notepad++ menu bar. How a menu-entry can be “near” a key on your keyboard is completely and totally beyond comprehension.
If you’re going to bother posting to a topic that had been answered and left dormant years ago, the least you could do is not bring in false information.
(And the advice to “press the question mark (?) button … and click’Update Notepad++'” had already been given in various forms three years ago. So that added nothing new.)
