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Context menu weirdness

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:58 pm
by Otto42
Windows 7.

The root level TextPad context menu opens TextPad, but doesn't open the file I selected.

Weirdness: If TextPad is already open, then the existing TextPad instance comes to the front and *does* open the file.

What up with that?

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:23 pm
by dj.rick.bates
I'm having the same problem
newly installed 5.4.2 on Window 7 Enterprise x64 SP 1

Right-click on a file and select Text Pad in the contextual menu
Text Pad starts up but does not do anything

Right-click on a file and select "Open with" Text Pad in the contextual menu
Text Pad starts up but throws an error
"There was a problem sending the command to the program"

Neither one of these occur if Text Pad is already open

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 5:45 pm
by paulmin
Well it is working. Not sure of the fix but this is what I've done.
1. Turned off the tips screen.
2. Right after turning the tip screen off I upgraded my system to Windows 8. When I click on a .txt file Textpad no opens the file properly. So...
Try turning off the tip screen to see if that in fact fixed it. I think it may have possibly been the fix because nothing else works until you close it.