TextPad looses Association with *.TXT in XP Pro

[CONFUSER]

Hi:
Weird and the last time this happened I had to use RegCrawler to Edit replace Notepad.exe associated with TXT with Textpad. I am running 4.73 (I think anyway latest version.)

All of a sudden when I hit a text fin (not open - double click on it) Notepad.exe open instead. And then gives an error message (sometimes) that Textpad was unable to find the file in temp. (This frequently occurs when I open a text file in an open WinZip Archive.

I unassociated and then re associated Textpad with TXT, and then reinstalled the current version.

Any ideas other then me manually having to edit my HUGE 18 MB registry!! lol

Thanks

[lashicd]

Try right clicking on the .txt file and choose open with.
Then select choose program.
This will open up a new window. In this window select TextPad and then make sure that the "always use this program" check box is checked.

Hope that this works for you.

[bveldkamp]

I have the same problem, anyone found a solution yet?

Right now, when I double-click on a .txt file, it opens in notepad. When I right-click and choose Open With, I have 3 options: Notepad, Microsoft Excel for Windows and Choose Program.... This last option opens a dialog with Recommended Programs (Notepad and Excel) and Other Programs (Textpad is not among them). I can click on Browse, and browse to textpad.exe, but after that, nothing happens (Textpad is not added to the list). The same thing happens when I open Tools | Folder Options | File Types in Window's Explorer.

OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
TP: 4.7.3

[bveldkamp]

Found the answer just a fwe minutes after my previous post...

Change the default value for

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HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command

to

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C:\Program\TextPad 4\Textpad.exe "%1"

Change the default value for

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HKCR\txtfile\shell\print\command

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C:\Program\TextPad 4\Textpad.exe /p "%1"

Change the default value for

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HKCR\txtfile\DefaultIcon

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C:\Program\TextPad 4\Textpad.exe,18

Still I'm wondering if there's a bug in the code for associating files with TextPad (Configure | Preferences | Associated Files)