Crash opening .TXT files under Win2000

[Lee Dowthwaite]

Whenever I try to open a .TXT file (any opening method), TextPad crashes (hangs). This is a Win2000 problem since on an NT machine I never had this problem. I have messed around with the document classes but that doesn't fix it.

I've seen a couple of similar postings, and they pointed to Virus scanning software to be the blame. I'm running VShield and I've disabled it to no avail. Any help appreciated here! I have to rename my files before I can open them!!

Lee

[mo]

I'm running TextPad on W2K so it's not a W2K problem, but a problem with your setup. Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing without the virus-scan software running. That is what they usually mean by a virus-scanning problem...some messup during installation.

By default Windows is going to want to use Notepad to open .txt files; sounds to me like you do have some kind of file association problem in Windows.

Can you open textpad with a blank file and save it as .txt...hum seems like yes since you can rename files and open them.

Go to My Computer > Control Panel > Folder Options > double click
File Types > scroll to TXT where it should show opens with and make sure TextPad is the Application or change it to TextPad.

There is also a little applet on this site somewhere which will tell windows to open TextPad whenever Notepad is called.

mo