bat file opening in MS notepad, now to open in npp?

[V S Rawat]

When I right click on a bat file in windows explorer, I see

• open, clicking which runs the file.
• edit, that opens MS notepad.

I want this edit to open file in npp instead.

I tried going through npp menu - settings - file association. bat extenstion was not there, so I went to customize and added bat and registered.

but that removed the right-click edit option altogether, and only “open” is remaining there, clicking which opens the file in npp for editing, but now I can’t run the bat file.

so, please guide how to open bat file in npp instead of in MS notepad.

Thanks.

[PeterJones]

If you have the Edit with Notepad++ entry applied to all file types, it shows up whether or not the program has an “association” with Notepad++. That’s the safer way to do that.

Go see https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/18140/how-to-get-windows-explorer-right-click-menu-open-edit-with-notepad for a very recent discussion started on how to get that entry. (ie, it was the post I answered just before reading yours.)