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    • rickpepR Offline
      rickpep
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      I wasn’t sure how to phrase the title.
      My situation is that I have v7.5.6 installed and can find that executable. I have it as a shortcut on my Win7 (yes, I’m upgrading) taskbar. This version works fine.

      When I double-click an associated file from Windows Explored, it opens a different version (v7.6.6). I cannot find where that exe is. I’d like to make that my default and change my desktop and taskbar shortcuts to point to this version?

      I may be missing something, but I cannot find where that exe is located.

      Thanks for any help.

      -Rick

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      • Alan KilbornA Offline
        Alan Kilborn @rickpep
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        @rickpep

        When the program is running, go to the ? menu and choose Debug Info.... A popup will happen that identifies several attributes of the program. One of these is Path:. That one will tell you the path to the exe you are currently running.

        You could also search your hard drive for all instances of notepad++.exe…

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        • rickpepR Offline
          rickpep
          last edited by rickpep

          That did it. Both ways. For some reason since I could only find one Notepad++.exe in the folders, i did not think ti simply search my hard drive. This is a work computer and I am not very well versed in how Windows is administered for a group. My directories for the exe look like this: “C:\ProgramData\App-V\39053732-F6F5-4330-B230-69A64467D68E\53CFA7AE-489B-47AD-9FC2-46755FB8FDAA\Root\VFS\ProgramFilesX64\Notepad++\notepad++.exe”

          I do not even see a “ProgramData” at first. Then I thought to view hidden system files and then there it was. Thanks for giving my brain a jump start.

          -Rick

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