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Worked like a charm thanks !!

Textpad 6.1.3 colours html text in various shades depending on formatting.

How can I get this in Textpad 7.4.0 which currently shows only black text ?

Thanks.

er ... I suggest you do a search for notepad.exe.
It is usually in C:\Windows

My question was not concerned with the default application for opening text files. I use TexPad for this.

What happened was, I tried to open Notepad using the normal Notepad shortcut and TextPad opened instead.

This gives me another minor irritation - this time with Windows. Although I use TextPad ...

Here is a VBscript to do that.It looks for 3 consecutive Carriage Return/LineFeed characters.

'=======================================================================
'- WINDOWS VBSCRIPT
'- FIND TEXT FILE WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE EMPTY LINES - option to open it
'- Copy/past this text to a text file ...

Thanks for the help. That worked fine.

Wierd. I click on notepad.exe or its shortcut but TextPad runs instead.
As a developer I need to be able to run Notepad as users do not have TextPad.

How can I rectify this ?

Using Windows 7 64bit. XP does not have this problem.

Hi I thought I would add my two-penn'orth. I arrived here searching for an answer to the same question.

The solutions suggested here - and elsewhere - which involve using the normal windows interface are no good. A symptom of this is that no matter what application we set to open text files ...