Shell extension multiple files behavior change
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On Windows 7, I used to get the “Edit with Notepad++” context menu option even with multiple files selected. I noticed today that this is no longer the case. I updated to 8.53 on 5/29/2023 and to 8.5.4 today. I’m not sure when this behavior changed – it could have been anytime since 7.7.1
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Starting in v8.5.1, the way the context menu was done was changed to work with win11, but has been having trouble with older versions of Windows. Subsequent releases have been trying to fix it for “everyone” with varying levels of success.
Unfortunately for you, Win7 is not supported by Notepad++, so while it will hopefully soon work for win8.1 and newer, it may be that it won’t ever be in your default context menu on your decade-out-of-date OS. Of course, it’s really easy to manually add it to your registry yourself on Win7… ( use the forum search for
registryand put my username as the author in the search advanced options, and you should find an example from me some years back.)
