Not Loading on windows 10 with the 20H2 update

[Kobra299]

notepad++ does not seem to load it goes throught the task manager ok but will not open any thing I have tried to load it in Admin mode as well and it does not load at all

any help and or suggestions is most welcome

[PeterJones]

@Kobra299 ,

I don’t have 20H2 yet, so I cannot try to replicate. But a couple of preliminary questions:

• do you have any plugins installed? if so, can you run notepad++.exe -noPlugin and have it work? It may be that there’s a plugin causing your problem, rather than notepad++.exe itself.
• which version of Notepad++ do you have? (since you cannot do ? > Debug Info, try looking at c:\program files\notepad++\change.log , or the appropriate path for your installation)

[Terry R]

@Kobra299 said in Not Loading on windows 10 with the 20H2 update:

notepad++ does not seem to load

1. Notepad++ can be run with the command line argument -NoPlugin. So if you did have plugins, this will prevent any from loading. If you then find it works then you will need to disable the plugins and re-enable one by one until you find the culprit.
2. Download a portable version of Notepad++ and install (essentially just unzip into any folder). Run it and see if it works. Try and get the same version number as this will also confirm whether a possible OS version issue. Or maybe it’s a corrupt install.
3. Is it possible that Notepad++ is actually running, but it’s window is off-screen or minimised in such a way that you can’t see or maximise it?

Terry

Edit. I see @PeterJones got in just before me, although I do have a couple of other ideas he didn’t mention

[PeterJones]

@Terry-R said in Not Loading on windows 10 with the 20H2 update:

3. Is it possible that Notepad++ is actually running, but it’s window is off-screen or minimised in such a way that you can’t see or maximise it?

Good thought. Since @Kobra299 said “it goes throught the task manager ok”, I wasn’t sure if it ran-and-then-stopped in Task Manager, or it was running but not visible. If it’s running-but-invisible, then something @Kobra299 could try:

1. use taskbar or task manager to bring it to focus (even though you cannot see it; task manager > right click > switch to or bring to front)
2. Alt+Spacebar
3. M (for “Move”) – if you have a different localization, use whatever accelerator key a normal Window uses for “Move” in the alt+spacebar menu
4. hit left arrow (or other arrows)
5. after that, the window should follow the mouse, even if it used to be off-screen

[mere-human]

I use Notepad++ 7.9.4 (32-bit) on Windows 10 20H2 just fine.