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Many thanks! pfs

TextPad 4 stores its configuration in the registry, whereas TextPad 6 & 7 stores theirs in XML files, except for file associations and shortcuts to the executables. That is unavoidable, because that's where Windows requires them. So, those should be the only potential conflicts.

Keith MacDonald ...

I would like to run both TP4 and TP6 on the same Win7 machines, and perhaps also TP7 (for testing). TP6 and TP7, so far as I can tell, cannot both be installed; TP4 and TP6 can be, but coexist uneasily when it comes to interaction with Windows. Has anyone been successful in running multiple versions ...

Having installed and uninstalled TP 4 and 6 several times (and once TP7) in a vain effort to make different versions play well together -- never, I might add, in the default install folder--, I am left with a registry full enough of conflicting TextPad stuff that no version will now work corectly. I ...

The most convenient and reliable command-line XML
validators I know of that work in a Windows environment and
can be scripted easily (and therefore invoked as a 'tool'
within TextPad) are xmlstarlet and xmllint, both based
on the libxml libraries and both free.

Please please reinstate the search results opening as a document

I have to agree with this. In fact, of the UI changes, only one (resizable search/replace window) represented an improvement for me. I have no need of an explorer pane (that's what Explorer is for), and find the pinnable/dockable ...