Problem With Right Click - Registry Setting

JabbaMan · Post by **JabbaMan** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:41 am

I have used TextPad forever. I always right click on a file name in Windows Explorer and Text Pad has always appeared under Open With...

Recently my laptop crashed. I reinstalled everything as well as TextPad but TextPad is no longer on the right click main menu. It now appears under the Open With sub menu. At first I thought I could live with that but am finding it difficult to adjust to that and not just clicking TextPad.

I have never done anything special on install. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling - no change.

I'm sure this is a registry setting but could not figure out what to change.

I searched the forums but didn't really see anything that applies. This computer is running XP Service Pack 3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Post by **helios** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:31 pm

In order to put TextPad on the Context menu, you will need to implement the following procedure:

From the Configure menu choose:

1. Preferences
2. General
3. Under the heading "Put shortcuts to TextPad on" check "Context Menu"
4. Click Apply / OK.

I hope this helps.

JabbaMan · Post by **JabbaMan** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:53 pm

Worked beautifully. Thanks for the help.

Problem Solved.