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by pbristow
Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: TextPad hangs for ~50 seconds before starting
Replies: 20
Views: 4386

TextPad hangs for ~50 seconds before starting

Thanks to jry for this. I confirm that the fix suggested works with Windows 7 32 bit (updated 16 feb 12) using this page directly: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-open-with-notepad-to-the-context-menu-for-all-files/ (One could also entitle the key just "TextPad".) This also is nicer ...
by pbristow
Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: TextPad hangs for ~50 seconds before starting
Replies: 20
Views: 4386

TextPad hangs for ~50 seconds before starting

The setting on explorer view Explorer bar, details, etc make no difference to the delay. I presume the context menu is in the Windows Explorer registry entries which are written by textpad when switching the context menu on or off? Can we know what there are? (Unchecking the "context menu" box, of ...
by pbristow
Sat Feb 11, 2012 6:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: TextPad hangs for ~50 seconds before starting
Replies: 20
Views: 4386

Delay about 1 minute when starting from context menu

I am also *much* inconvenienced by this behaviour which has started out-of-the-blue. Starting from context menu in Windows Explorer, there is a delay about 1 minute before Textpad actually starts to open the right-click selected file. Needless to say, this is terminally tiresome! Send_to, normal ...