To start a Note Pad
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Where do I go to start my note pad? I want to do like a statement of different things that I can and cannot do. I want to do like a file of things that I can and cannot do.
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@Helen-Laker said in To start a Note Pad:
Where do I go to start my note pad?
Assuming you have downloaded and installed a version of Notepad++, then you run that application. Installed versions will provide a menu item to run it from. The “portable” version you need to create your own shortcut to run it.
When Notepad++ is opened the first time the initial tab may well be called “change.log”. This will show enhancements and bug fixes in the version you are running, mainly with reference to the previous version. You can close this tab, at which time another tab called “new 1” will be open. This is the blank tab into which you type anything. You could allow the Notepad++ application to perform background saves on the unnamed file, it currently isn’t an actual file in the Windows system. If doing so, you should read this FAQ post; Periodic Backup vs AutoSave Plugin, it has very important information regarding the background saving function.
It is a very good idea to save the tab as a real file, especially for critical data you can’t afford to lose. Once saved as a real file, the name of the tab will be that of the real file.
Obviously you came upon Notepad++ as an application due to some need, or perhaps a reference to it somewhere or by someone. According to your need you will likely be using the functions it provides for some tasking. Only you will be able to determine the road you take and how you ultimately use Notepad++. This forum comprises fellow Notepad++ members and we are here to help guide you through the Notepad++ abilities. So feel free to ask when you need help. You should however attempt to find out the solution on your own first. Read the online manual (link under the
?menu in Notepad++), or read the FAQ posts we have here in the forum.Terry
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In addition to what @Terry-R mentioned, for the “portable” version, you can also browse to the folder and run the notepad++.exe file. As I don’t use the portable version, not sure if using the full path\notepad++.exe will also run it or not.
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@Almighty1 said in To start a Note Pad:
not sure if using the full path\notepad++.exe will also run it or not.
Yes, that’s the way Windows works with any command-line-launched program: it can run anything that you give it the full path to, and whatever you run will start with the current working directory as the app’s working directory.
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@PeterJones said in To start a Note Pad:
@Almighty1 said in To start a Note Pad:
not sure if using the full path\notepad++.exe will also run it or not.
Yes, that’s the way Windows works with any command-line-launched program: it can run anything that you give it the full path to, and whatever you run will start with the current working directory as the app’s working directory.
Thanks for confirming as I didn’t have the portable version around to confirm if it works or not.
I only mentioned that as with a few tasks in Task Scheduler, it will not run until I put in a Start in matching the same folder as the full path of the executable it is running in, otherwise the task won’t successfully run. A example of this is HWInfo and System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) but ofofcourse it might be a task scheduler requirement.
