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Just to confirm there is no conflict going on, please check if there is a file association in TextPad listed under Configure/Preferences/Associated files.
If there is, delete it and then redo the switching association in Explorer with Notepad and Textpad that you preciously tried.

You can't have spaces in Keywords so unfortunately it isn't possible to specify multiple words.

There's something weird going on when TextPad's main window is stretched down to the taskbar, until you get visual feedback that it can't go any further. At that point, the top snaps up to the top of the desktop, so it's kind of like maximising the window, but only vertically. If you then exit and ...

This particular utility backs up settings that are stored in the Registry, however, settings for the current versions of TextPad are no longer stored there. They are now saved to two xml files, GUIState.xml and ConfigState.xml, which are normally located in:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Helios ...

If you save the file or files as a Workspace from the File menu, then attributes such as visible spaces and bookmarks are retained when the .tws file is opened, on subsequent occasions.

Please try renaming the XML file ( GUIState.xml),to see if that solves the problem. Exit from TextPad before renaming the file.

In windows 7 it's stored here:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Helios\TextPad\6.0.


I hope this helps.

When Paste stops working for you, do the Insert/Paste as Lines or Insert/Paste as Block commands work?

Can you paste into the Incremental Finder?

This appears to be a problem for only a very small minority of people, so we need to try and find some common link between them.

What language version of TextPad is being used?
What language is the Operating System?
Is there some other software running that could be hogging the clipboard?
If you ...

Please try renaming the XML files (ConfigState.xml, GUIState.xml), one at a time, to see if that solves the problem. Exit from TextPad before renaming the file.

In windows 7 it's stored here:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Helios\TextPad\6.0.


I hope this helps.

Please send a diagnostic dump file to "support@textpad.com"

Obvious question to start with but are the documents set to Read only?

One possibility is that if you are running a 64 bit operating system, you still need to install the 32 bit version of the JDK, otherwise TextPad won't recognise it.

Thanks for the information. It should help us to identify the cause more easily.

Thanks for reporting this problem. We are investigating it now, and will issue a fix ASAP.

It is possible that the dictionary files have not been moved from the TextPad 4 Spelling sub folder into the TextPad 5 sub folder. If that is the case, then simply move them to the Spelling sub folder of your TextPad 5 installation folder.

I hope this helps.