Hi all,
I'm trying to replace notepad with Textpad on Win2K. I successfully used txplink to replace notepad when I used NT but I can't get it working on Win2K. Whenever I delete notepad.exe it is replaced by the OS. I believe txplink2000 is supposed to disable this feature and do the replacement but notepad is not being replaced. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Jim
txplink2000 doesn't work
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Andreas
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work
Does it replace notepad with or without asking?
When I installed txplink2000, Windows told me that some system file had been replaced and whether I wanted it to be restored.
If such a question pops up after you installed txplink2000, answer it with "no".
If I remember correctly, there were two or three of these questions, after that it was ok (and still works...)
When I installed txplink2000, Windows told me that some system file had been replaced and whether I wanted it to be restored.
If such a question pops up after you installed txplink2000, answer it with "no".
If I remember correctly, there were two or three of these questions, after that it was ok (and still works...)
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Jim Icenhower
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work
Andreas,
Thanks for your reply. There are no dialog boxes displayed at all. I'm running txplink2000 by double-clicking on install.bat in my download directory. I've already tried running it from the command line in the WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory.
Jim
Thanks for your reply. There are no dialog boxes displayed at all. I'm running txplink2000 by double-clicking on install.bat in my download directory. I've already tried running it from the command line in the WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory.
Jim
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Andreas
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work
Is the Win2K user account you are using when trying to install a user account with admin rights?
If not, I think the install will fail...
If not, I think the install will fail...
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Jim Icenhower
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work-Fixed it
My account has administrator rights so that wasn't the problem but I did get it fixed. I looked at the batch file and realized that it was the dllcache folder that was causing notepad.exe to be recreated after every deletion. I simply deleted notepad.exe from the dllcache folder (it had already been copied to notepad.exe.bak by the installation batch file previously). This allowed me to delete notepad.exe in the System32 directory and rename txplink.exe to notepad.exe.
It seems to work fine now.
Thanks!
Jim
It seems to work fine now.
Thanks!
Jim
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Charles Stewart
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work-Fixed it
I've just run into the problem of Win2K not allowing me to replace notepad.exe with txplink.exe. Contrary to the experience of the previous writers, Win2K quickly restores the previous version of notepad.exe despite all my efforts to prevent it. This happens in all 3 directories -- winnt, system32, and dllcache (and yes, I'm using an account with administrator privileges). I suspect this is a recent OS "enhancement". I'm running Build 2195, Service Pack 3.
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Charles Stewart
Re: txplink2000 doesn't work-Fixed it
OK. I've figured out the answer to my post from earlier today. Apologies for the false alarm. Detailed instructions for defeating Win2K's attempts to preserve the previous version of notepad.exe can be found at:
http://www.notepad-replacements.com/notepad2000.html
My thanks to the person who provided this pointer in the thread "Win XP Pro and txplink", which addresses the parallel problem in WinXP.
In my case there was one additional wrinkle. The instructions at the above URL state that after notepad.exe had been replaced in both the WINNT directory and in its own DLLCACHE directory, it will put up a dialog asking for Windows installation CD. One simply refuses to do this and cancels out of the dialog until Window gives up. The problem was that I didn't get this dialog -- notepad.exe simply got restored in both directories. Then I recalled that Win2K came preinstalled on my PC, a Dell, and that Dell puts a copy of the installation CD on the computer's hard disk, so that the CD isn't required for installing additional Windows components. I searched for files beginning with the name "notepad" and found 3 compressed files in directory C:/I386. I renamed all three. Then, when I followed the instructions in the URL, I got the promised dialogs and was able to cancel out of them. This finally allowed my changes to stick.
http://www.notepad-replacements.com/notepad2000.html
My thanks to the person who provided this pointer in the thread "Win XP Pro and txplink", which addresses the parallel problem in WinXP.
In my case there was one additional wrinkle. The instructions at the above URL state that after notepad.exe had been replaced in both the WINNT directory and in its own DLLCACHE directory, it will put up a dialog asking for Windows installation CD. One simply refuses to do this and cancels out of the dialog until Window gives up. The problem was that I didn't get this dialog -- notepad.exe simply got restored in both directories. Then I recalled that Win2K came preinstalled on my PC, a Dell, and that Dell puts a copy of the installation CD on the computer's hard disk, so that the CD isn't required for installing additional Windows components. I searched for files beginning with the name "notepad" and found 3 compressed files in directory C:/I386. I renamed all three. Then, when I followed the instructions in the URL, I got the promised dialogs and was able to cancel out of them. This finally allowed my changes to stick.