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I've not seen this behavior. File Open/Save-As is what's called a modal dialog box, so Windows forces it to have input focus. The Find/Replace/Find-in-Files dialog boxes are modeless, which means they remain topmost, but can lose input focus to other parts of the user interface. The fact that you're...

This will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for reporting it.

This has been fixed for the next release. Thanks for reporting it.

The automatic backup system saves files in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Helios\TextPad. It does this without changing the modified indicator, because it hasn’t saved over the original file. Windows asks if you want to update the originals with those backups, when restarting TextPad after a Window...

If you select "Manage History Lists" on the configure menu, this dialog box will be displayed: HistoryLists.png Choose the one you want to manage from the drop-down, then select and delete the entries you don't want to keep. Note that the bug which caused it to crash when the number of rec...

If you do that by right clicking TextPad on the Start menu and choosing "Run as Administrator", contents of its Macros and Tools menus should not be affected. That's how it behaves for me. If you log in as a different user with Admin rights, that user will have its own configuration, macro...

As Amigo Jack points out, if you are using the themed file open dialog box, this could be the issue, as it can be slow to open because it doesn't share the cache used by the system file open dialog. You can revert to using that with Configure » Preferences » File » Use the standard file open dialog ...

If TextPad cannot save to a file, perhaps because it's read-only, or its timestamp has changed since it was opened, or the original no longer exists, the Save As dialog box is displayed to alert you.

If this doesn't explain the behaviour you're seeing, what kind of filesystem are your files on?

@zhenya, Regarding the second issue, you've made a convincing case so this will also be fixed in the next release.

This happens if a workspace containing modified new documents is open at the time Windows Update automatically restarts the operating system. To work around it, either close or save the new documents. This will be fixed in the next release.

Does this happen other than after the monthly Windows Update has automatically rebooted your PC?

The second issue occurs because TextPad checks that timestamps on files are different, rather than newer than the one loaded. This gives you the opportunity to revert to the unmodified original. Will look into the first. It's occurring in Microsoft's code. Closing and reopening the workspace should ...

This is fixed in 9.4.1 and 8.18.1.

We are pleased to announce the release of TextPad 9.4.1 and 8.18.1. Please see the release notes for details of the changes and the downloads page for links to the installation files. WARNING: workspace files saved in version 9 cannot be read by version 8. There is no charge for either of these upda...

We are pleased to announce the release of TextPad 9.4.1 and 8.18.1. Please see the release notes for details of the changes and the downloads page for links to the installation files. WARNING: workspace files saved in version 9 cannot be read by version 8. There is no charge for either of these upda...