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I may be a bit dense, but I have been able to allow multiple instances to run in previous versions of TextPad 7 and 8, but due to a problem on my desktop I now have an install of TextPad 8.14.2 on a new Windows 10 laptop. I probably need a step by step description of what is needed in Preferences> G...

If I start just one instance of Textpad, then change the preference (clear the checkbox next to "Allow multiple instances to run", then save and exit, then start one instance, then open a file in Explorer using the Edit or Open with... options, another instance is started. This happens wi...

I have configured TextPad 8 to open plain text files that have the file extension .ASC. TextPad 'overrides' Notepad of course. If a (plain text) file is created, no name at this stage, then saved as .ASC rather than .TXT, the word-wrapping and very convenient property that TextPad has, to display a ...

TextPad 8.8.1 registered
if I have 1 or several files open (within a single instance) then close each one in turn, after saving, TextPad restarts by itself with the last-closed file.

Windows 10, any/all updates.
Pc has plenty of RAM, plenty of disk space,

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Unrelated to TextPad - it is a problem with another program, which I have uninstalled and removed traces in registry.

Yes, it was an ArcSoft application, and yes I omitted the Ac from the messagebox title.

Thanks for the reply (did not see it until now).

Is this problem reported by other users of TextPad ? I have a registered version of textpad 64-bit, v8.8.1 When I shut down or restart Windows 10, I often have TextPad open but all tabs (documents) already saved to disk. I am getting a popup error when Windows tries to close all open programs (which...

SysInternals RootkitRevealer reports that 14 registry keys (relating only to placement of windows, etc) are 'wrong' - at least, by a currently ongoing scan on my Windows XP Pro system. The actual message is - Windows API length not consistent with raw hive data I can't see that this would affect any...