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Honestly all I can suggest is go back to 4.7.3 until they fix all the problems. 5 is just too buggy. It crashed on me so many times that I just gave up. Being a programmer I know how hard it can be to develop and release a product. You can't foresee every problem. I am sorry but this is just ...

Lovely now all of a sudden none of my document classes are working and all the pulldown menus have invalid characters everywhere like its having a character coding problem.

Sorry Helios but Textpad 5.0 is really bad. Maybe you should have done some beta testing first.

I am going back to 4!

I had numerous problems after upgrading. What I did was uninstall 5, and made sure 4 was gone. Then searched the registery for textpad and deleted every key for it. Then reinstalled 5. That took care of everything except the open problem.

Ok I FINALLY FIXED this just now so I figured I would pass this along. After reading every post on here and trying a lot of different things this is the only one that works 100% of the time. What I am about to tell you is dangerous, so be careful and make a backup!! Let's take .txt as an example of ...

I found how to fix the problem where files associated with Textpad will not work, or when you right click on a file and choose open with Textpad no longer shows and you cannot add it. This assumes you installed into C:\Program Files\TextPad 5\ Open your registery (Start->Run->Regedit) Then browse to ...