there is data left after the program was uninstalled

Jane Mischenko

I deleted the program, there are several users on the computer. I can’t find the program data anywhere. but the files .txt is still opened via notepad++
help me find where the data is coming from, where else to clean
it, I initially deleted it because if I change anything in the program settings (for example, dark -light theme, etc.), the changes are not saved.

PeterJones

@Jane-Mischenko said in there is data left after the program was uninstalled:

I can’t find the program data anywhere. but the files .txt is still opened via notepad++

Do you mean “Files with the .txt still want to be opened with Notepad++, but since I uninstalled, they don’t get opened with that”? Or do you mean, “Despite the fact that I thought I uninstalled Notepad++, .txt files are still opened with Notepad++”?

The second is easy to debug, because you could just use ?-menu’s Debug Info to find out where the notepad++.exe actually lives, and manually uninstall that part.

But if you mean you just want to dis-associate Notepad++ from .txt, the easiest way to do that is to right click on a .txt file, and use Windows’ Open With command to tell it to open with some other application, and checkmark “Always use this app to open .txt files”

And I just saw you started with

I deleted the program

Yeah, if you deleted the program instead of uninstalling it, then it didn’t clean out its hooks in the registry. If you use an installer to install an application, the best way to remove it is to use the official uninstaller (if you cannot find it, using Windows Add or Remove Programs tool makes it easy to run uninstallers), because uninstallers are designed to remove the registry entries that do things like associate the file type with the application. But if you have already deleted the application (including the uninstaller), then you’re going to have to use Open With (or manually edit the registry, which I doubt you want to do) to change any associations to whatever app you do want to use for .txt files.

mkupper

It seems from @Jane-Mischenko’s message that Notepad++ was not uninstalled or deleted and that text files are still associated with Notepad++. That is good.

@Jane-Mischenko - From Notepad++ click on the ? that is at the top-right of the menu bar at the top of Notepad++ and then select Debug Info.... Click the [Copy debug info into clipboard] button and then paste the results into a this forum thread so that we can see what you have. I think from there we can help you figure out why changes to the program settings (for example, dark -light theme, etc.), are not saved.

Jane Mischenko

Debug Info! Debug info is what I needed! It was installed for some reason in program files/npp/ …
Why here… ) But well, the main thing is that I finally found where the launch came from and now I know how to search. Thanks!