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bbadmin wrote:We have discovered the cause of the missing context menu options for opening files in a particular TextPad session, so it will be available again in the next maintenance upgrade.

Thank you! I will look forward to the return of that feature.

Just to let you know... this is an issue for me, too.
I used the "Contact" form to send an email about it.
I'm glad to know it's not just a quirk of my system that is causing it.
I will stop looking for obscure registry-based solutions and instead
just wait to see whether there is ever any response ...

I know of no other applications I am running that would block DDE messages. I am not running a debugger. Even if I reboot my computer and run my TextPad-dependent application as the very first thing I do when the computer starts, I still get the message that "Server TextPad.dde is unavailable".

As ...

I am using TextPad 7.0.9 (32-bit) under Windows 8.1.
When I run this command:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\TextPad 7\system\DDEOPN32.EXE" TextPad.dde abc.txt

a new instance of TextPad opens (even if one was already running), and a dialog box window pops up. The title of the window is "DdeOpen Error ...