Very Annoying: I WANT TO OPEN EVERYTHING WITH TEXTPAD !

[Skybuck]

Hello,

I have Textpad on Windows XP 32 bit and I can open everything with the right click menu/context menu.

Textpad is always in there.

However on Windows XP x64/64 bit this entry is missing.

It's only present for known types and not for unknown types.

Since there are many many many many many many many text files with unknown extensions this is annoying the *** out of me !

I just want to open every fricking file with textpad so the "open with textpad" should always be there ?!

I even think it was just called: "Textpad".

I can't remember if I added it myself to the pop-up menu context right click whatever thingy...

Or if textpad did that..

How to fricking do it so I can always do:

Right Click on File
Open with Textpad

NO MATTER WHAT !

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Moderator editing comment: Inappropriate language has been edited out.

[Skybuck]

NEVER MIND.

I ALREADY FOUND IT.

SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT ADDING THIS TO TEXTPAD.

It's so *** simple.

And so *** USEFULL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could have saved me lots of anger and troubles !

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... all-files/

READ IT AND LEARN FROM IT.

Now go watch the Red Alert 3 REMIX AND ENJOY THAT VIDEO TOO AND LEARN FROM IT LOLOLOLOLOL

*** NEWB

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Moderator edting note. Foul language was removed, is not generally accepted on this professional forum.

[miked]

Why can't you just a question without all the disgusting language. Were you born in a sewer?

If something like that gets you so stressed out what would you do if something important went wrong?

[Bob Hansen]

As a moderator I have removed some language that was in violation of the guidelines for this forum.
I have also removed additional postings here, getting into the inappropriate language, that had nothing to do with TextPad.

This has not been a common problem on this site, and is a good opportunity to express "Thanks" to everyone for trying to keep this a professional site.

[Skybuck]

This has been annoying me for 1.5 years at least. (EVERY ****ING DAY)

I'd like to see you react after a bug has sat in your ass for 1.5 years

LOL.

[Bob Hansen]

"I'd like to see you react after a bug has sat ... for 1.5 years"

I think you are correct in making an enhancement request.
But I don't think it qualifies as a bug.

Windows provides the tool to modify this Context Menu ability by tweaking the registry. But this is not an advertised feature of TextPad, this is not somthing that does not work as documented.

There are hundreds of features that we would all like added, but that doesn't make them bugs. As much as I have prioritized the ability to edit macros, I still don't consider that a bug, but a greatly desired feature.

And, thanks for the link to the registry hack

[talleyrand]

Not to belabour a point, but if anything, TP-related or not, has bothered you for 500+ days, rather than suffer silently until such time you feel the need to lash out in a most reckless and unprofessional manner, it might behoove you to make a polite inquiry with the responsible parties long before it becomes an issue.

[shippee]

It's now early 2010 and I'm reading old posts ... however, with Server 2008 64 bit version as a test platform, Textpad 5.3.1 now shows up as an option when right clicking in Windows Explorer - so is this an example of a requested enhancement being added to Textpad, or did Microsoft make something better?

[AmigoJack]

With knowledge on how the Registry works everyone could have set this up himself with every version and platform (x86 or x64) since Windows 95 (and up to whatever the current Windows version is) - unrelated if the program knows how to do this or not:

1. Run the registry editor (regedit.exe).
2. Browse to the key

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   HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell

3. Look which keys exist there already and create one in the same manner, f.e.:
   1. Create a new key with a distinct name, f.e. textpad
   2. In that newly created key, create a key named command
   3. Edit the key's default value to the content of where TextPad is installed and add the filename placeholder as parameter, minding quotes around parameters that could have spaces in them, f.e.

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      "C:\Program Files\TextPad\TextPad.exe" "%1"

The new context menu should appear immediately - no restart required. The downside of this approach is merely that you don't get a nice icon next to the menu item.


A different approach is that each program has to install its own shell extension through providing a DLL - that means you cannot do it yourself. This can be done by using the following keys:

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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\TextPad8
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{<GUID>}

Again: you probably already have shell extensions there, so just inspect which keys with which context exist there. This way one can have an icon next to the menu entry (but boy, at which price).