INFO: Txt file associations in Win2k and others

[borax]

Hi,
I was also struggling with getting TextPad to automatically pick up .txt extensions (instead of Notepad). Got a lot of DDE and other things to do, but the simplest approach which worked was:

1. shift-right-click on a .txt file and say 'always open with textpad'
2. go to File Types in Windows Explorer - tools - folder options, and select
'Advanced' for the 'TXT File' type
3. Create new action, called 'OpenText' (or whatever), and make it the default.
4. In Actions, paste the following string:
"C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\TextPad.exe" "%1"
NOTE: please note the quotation marks around %1

Hope this helps people, and sorry if this is a repost.