Comments on: Replace Microsoft Notepad With Latest Notepad++ v5.0 in Windows

By: Leona Heidern

Leona Heidern — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:00:10 +0000

Raymond Wins! Flawless Victory.

By: Sinan Eldem

Sinan Eldem — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:37:43 +0000

1. Download Notepad++ v5.0 setup and install.
2. Download Notepad++ launcher (here: notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/commun/misc/NppLauncher.bin.zip ) and extract.

3. save commands below into install.bat where you have extracted launcher.

ren c:\windows\notepad.exe notepad-sineld.exe
copy notepad.exe c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386
copy notepad.exe c:\windows\system32\dllcache
copy notepad.exe c:\windows\system32
copy notepad.exe c:\windows
exit

4. run install.bat

that’s all!
you have replaced your notepad!

By: jacemace

jacemace — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:32:10 +0000

This method didn’t work for me.

Just take a notepad file in one of your folders, right click it and go to properties. Change open with from notepad to open with notepad++.

Even notepad++’s installer “make default notepad” didn’t work.

The current version is 5.7.

By: jakerrulz

jakerrulz — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:32:07 +0000

how would we go about using new versions of notepad++?

By: Cedrick

Cedrick — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:39:44 +0000

Not a complete replacement but I either start notepad from run menu or auto association to files. The second case is automatically sorted, the first case, I just type notepad++ in the run box instead of notepad.

By: EccentricEgg

EccentricEgg — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:48:02 +0000

I’m not sure why but when I replaced the notepad.exe in the given order it did not work. However when I went in the OPPOSITE order it worked fine. Just my 2 cents :)

By: Brent Danley

Brent Danley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:12:55 +0000

Love it! Works like a charm (I didn’t copy to first folder, just the last three as per the readme).

Notepad++ rocks! Thanks.