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Only if you get the extended control panel thingy. The basic drivers don't have it.

I find code-folding to be a pain in the arse - another few things you have to click to get where you want... I've always seen TextPad is a text editor, which is why I use it for it's minimal capabilities. Code folding is for code editors, which i do not use as 99% of the tools obstruct your ...

Credentials about sysadmin experience: about 8 years of frustrated hacking at sendmail on FreeBSD... http://www.mailenable.com/ <-- there is a free version of this available that should cover most people's needs - I'd use it myself but i'm using some cheap-ass windows hosting from the guys at www ...

ATI radeon control center crap uses .Net.

I find that the output window is a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes for obscuring what you are working on and getting in the way ctrl-tabbing around Would it be a good idea to have an option to dock the output window to the bottom of the MDI workspace? Proposal: * Provide a docking option for the ...

try Andale Mono. You can get the ttf if you google for it.

It's like Arial except that it has a dot in the middle of the zero and you can tell L and l and 1 apart easily.

Group by file extension would be good.

In fact some maths...

been using textpad since 1999 = 6 years
average 8-10 hours a day = 8 hours a day lowest
six days a week = 6
46 weeks a year for me = 46

6 * 8 * 6 * 46 =

13,428 hours without a crash or problem.

I think that's worth $31

buy now. a) you don't know when the next version will be - noone does b) $31 is nothing for such software. I use textpad for about 8-10 hours a day and have watched it pay off that price at least once a day. c) I bought my last license back in '99 for textpad so they last a long time (unlike office ...

In fact, just add the SDK bin directory and the \windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.x\ directories to your system's path. Works fine. I have Nant ( http://nant.sourceforge.net/ ) wired into textpad for building stuff with. Works great. My .Net development environment for you... - Win2k3 Server (as ...

I'd just like to add something to this... I prefer software that doesn't change too often. The modern forced upgrade cycle costs small businesses like mine an immense amount of money for little gain other than "percieved support". The fact that Textpad has never caused me a problem (in daily use for ...

well a company i used to work for (Raytheon Systems Limited) bought a large site license (i think it was about 500 users+)

Thanks for the tips - i will try this tonight.

Has anyone done this successfully before I attempt to have a go?

I've been using mysql-administrator but it's buggy as anything and is less productive than textpad generally.

This is about the only thing I wouldn't want to edit with TextPad - Query Analyzer is top notch for this and has some decent debugging features built in. If you are only using MSDE and don't have this tool, buy SQL Server 2000 developer edition from Amazon for about 40 UKP and use that, then deploy ...