Glad you figured it out! By the way, going forward you should probably obfuscate any directory paths that you post online, e.g., replacing the true path to a file with C:\path\to\blah.txt

PS E:\documents\Zambia\LuvaleText> get-childitem *.txt |foreach-object {
>>     Start notepad++ $_.name
>> }
PS E:\documents\Zambia\LuvaleText>

Also, I did get the full path into the path variable.
Thanx to all.
Bob

Either you need to add the directory where notepad++.exe is to your PATH, or you need to include the full path to notepad++.exe in your powershell command (as @litos81 posted just as I was typing)

you may add the full path to notepad++:

get-childitem *.txt |foreach-object {
>> & "C:\full\path\to\notepad++.exe" $_.name
>> }

Hope it helps!