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but it doesn't seem to be context sensitive (meaning, the textpad icon is there for EVERY file type, not just document filetypes which I believe is how it worked before). I think you may be remembering that incorrectly. for me, the whole point of this menu entry was that I could right-click and get ...

I didn't, but now I do. Although the option is still greyed out in the TextPad preferences window, this has indeed added the TextPad option to the Windows context menu and it is working as it should be. Thank you. :) As a side question (it doesn't seem worth starting a new thread for), anyone know ...

Okay, so I just got home and tried your registry edit. It doesn't appear to have worked for me. TextPad is still not listed in my context menu for a .txt file, and the option to enable it is still grayed out and unclickable. Edit: For clarification, the key *IS* in my registry, but it's still not ...

So far this seem to do the job but I'd still like to know if there is an official way to do it.

[edit] It doesn't seem to pass command line parameters properly if you use the right-click/print command on a file. I don't use that though. [/edit]

I know that similar questions have been asked in the past but the relevant threads that I could find were all very old. The problem: Right clicking on certain files (eg .bat, .reg) and selecting "Edit" starts Notepad, not TextPad. Some programs are hard wired to start Notepad when they call a text ...

You have probably sorted this out by now but look in the help file and look at:

Contents/How To/Change Settings/Colors

Excellent! Thank you very much. I can't believe that I had searched over and over for something like that yet it was staring me right in the face all along (although, to be fair, the words "Current line" were so pale in the dialog that even when I knew they were there, I couldn't see them ...

Hi there, I've had a search around and I don't seem to be able to find the solution to this problem so please be gentle with me if it has been asked before. ;) I like to have the "Highlight the line containing the cursor" option enabled and I find it particularly useful when searching through big ...