Textpad opens new instance when I doubleclick fille

EdH · Post by **EdH** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:42 pm

This has just started happening in the last few weeks and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix it.

I have Textpad 6.3.1
Allow multiple Instances to Run is NOT checked
Replace Notepad IS checked

No matter what I do though, double-clicking a textpad file opens a new instance of TP.

help!

ACRobin · Post by **ACRobin** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:07 pm

Anyone got an answer to this?

I have just installed TP onto a new Windows 7 64 bit machine and it is opening up a new instance of TP for every file I open via explorer - regardless of the "allow multiple instances" configuration setting.

kengrubb · Post by **kengrubb** » Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:48 am

Whom did you bribe to get an advanced copy of 6.3.1?

EdH · Post by **EdH** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:38 pm

FWIW, still no fix here either. ANnoying.

John Wingfield · Post by **John Wingfield** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 2:48 pm

Same here since installing 6.2.2, was fine beforehand.

StephenMSmith · Post by **StephenMSmith** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:54 pm

Any news on this? This is driving me nuts.

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:57 pm

When I right-click to open more than one file they are sometimes, but not always, in separate instances of TextPad.

David

ACRobin · Post by **ACRobin** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 3:45 pm

I had a play trying to get one instance of TP opening when selecting multiple files in explorer and still no luck,

Fixed my problem with the context menu entry not working by getting the keys below loaded as missing when I installed 6.2.2 :

Code:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{ABECE8A0-FF84-4efb-82AE-9B3181CE097D}\InProcServer32

Code:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TextPad

(Default) should be set to "{ABECE8A0-FF84-4efb-82AE-9B3181CE097D}"

This leads me think that something else is not been set-up automatically to allow the "multiple instances" configuration to work.

ACRobin · Post by **ACRobin** » Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:51 pm

After The registry fix, I changed the "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations" so that TextPad was associated with all documents I wanted it to be including ".txt"(oven though option selected within textpad).

Everything working now, no multiple instances.

Something must have blocked up these settings happening on installation of TP and setting preference options - I loaded as Administrator and have loaded TP many times so not sure why the problem with this installation.