If you bring up the windows context menu (Right click) on a TextPad editable file the accelerator key for TextPad is T, but this is shared with cut. One can edit shellext.dll in the TextPad install folder with a hex editor to change &TextPad to &ZextPad, or any other letter.
First, find where the accelerator is implemented. In the registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\TextPad
there should be a subkey with a value of possibly : {2F25CF20-C569-11D1-B94C-00608CB45480}
The value may vary. Next look to the key :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2F25CF20-C569-11D1-B94C-00608CB45480} ( Same value as above )
The next subkey InProcServer32 should have two values: (Default)=C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\System\shellext.dll and ThreadingModel=Apartment.
That file is one taking care of which Letter has the mnemonic.
Open shellext.dll file with a hex editor and search for &TextPad
Change the T to a Z or any other letter. keep in mind that binary code (DLLs and executables) depend on alignment so you can only replace it with a string of identical or less length (with proper nulls).
Save the .dll file as shellext2.dll in the same folder.
Change the Default subkey to : (Default)=C:\Program Files\TextPad 4\System\shellext2.dll
And reboot the system
Problem solved.
Windows context menu change
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