Run Notepad++ As Administrator?
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With standard Windows Notepad, I can right-click the application and run it as an administrator in order to edit files in the Windows System folders like “Program Files (x86)”. Is there a way to run Notepad++ as an Administrator? If not, I would like to make that a suggestion for a future version.
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@Nicholas-Piazza said in Run Notepad++ As Administrator?:
With standard Windows Notepad, I can right-click the application and run it as an administrator
And is something preventing you from doing the exact same thing with Notepad++ ?
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When I right-click on the Notepad++ icon in the taskbar I get the following popup.
There is nothing there about running as administrator.
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Run As Administrator is a Windows feature, not a Notepad++ feature.
Articles like https://www.windowscentral.com/how-run-app-administrator-windows-10 show around 10 different way of running an executable as Admin. Have you tried them all?
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OK, I can do it by launching Notepad++ from File Explorer. It’s just not as convenient as doing it from the icon in my taskbar. Thanks for the info.
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@Nicholas-Piazza said in Run Notepad++ As Administrator?:
OK, I can do it by launching Notepad++ from File Explorer. It’s just not as convenient as doing it from the icon in my taskbar. Thanks for the info.
Oh, I just tried the taskbar, since I thought it should work: you have to go another level deep: After you’ve right-clicked on the Notepad++ icon on the taskbar, Right Click on the
Notepad++entry, and you’ll get the Run as administrator in a second popup window.
