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Two XP computers. Two installations of Textpad, ver 5.2.0 on one, 5.4 on the other.

On one, when I use the Textpad "File | Open" dialog, there is a tickbox that lets me choose to open a file in read only mode. On the other PC, slightly newer Textpad, the "read only" tickbox is absent.

I don't think this is down to Textpad using a common "open file" dialog, as I get no "read only" tickbox when I access the "open file" for Notepad. (Yuck!)

Any help with getting the "read only" tickbox as part of my machine's Textpad "Open File" dialog much appreciated!

This should help:

http://www.textpad.com/download/v54/txpeng541.exe

WoW!

Many thanks! That DID restore the "read only" tick-box. Now THAT's service!!

I simply shut down all running instances of Textpad 5.4... didn't un-install... and ran the new file. I got a good message about "performing update".. and when the update was done, re-ran Textpad. All was well. I was still registered, etc.... and I had the "read only" tick box back.

(I find it really useful, so thanks for your trouble....

All of my pages at....

sheepdogguides.com
sheepdogsoftware.co.uk and
http://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/index2.htm

are created and maintained with Textpad.

Often I want to access a page to extract things from it, to use in another page. To be sure I don't "mess up" the source page, I open it "read only".

Great program... hence what I say about it at...

http://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/hh6s.htm

and

http://www.arunet.co.uk/tkboyd/prgmr1.htm#gotoTxtPad

!!