I open a lot of stuff in Notepad++ daily, it's mildly annoying having to select show 64-bit context menu then select edit with notepad++.
Is it possible to move it into the initial right click menu?
Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
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Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
If it doesn't install a 32-bit shell extension (and it doesn't seem to do so by default) your options are
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show the 64-bit context menu
or e.g.:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/375525/Fast-Explorer
(this is a manual way!)
Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show the 64-bit context menu
or e.g.:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/375525/Fast-Explorer
(this is a manual way!)
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Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
AFAIK the 32- and 64-bit ctx-menues are populated automatically depending on the bitness of the application, which would mean you can't have an entry for your 64-bit NP++ in the 32-bit menue but you could either install the 32-bit version of NP++ which I assume would put an entry in the 32-bit menue or you make an entry in the Open With / POM menue somewhere along the lines of the following entry I use for PSPad on my system:
You just would need to get used to rely on POM instead of the ctx-menue but since it comes with some other nice tricks you'll probably not going to miss the ctx-menue anymore after a while.
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xys>C:\Program Files (x86)\PSPad\PSPad.exe
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Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
Okay, this is weird.
I do have the 32-bit version of Notepad++ installed so I'm not quite sure why it's showing in the 64-bit menu.
I do have the 32-bit version of Notepad++ installed so I'm not quite sure why it's showing in the 64-bit menu.
Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
Very unlikely that the 32-bit version tries to register a 64-bit extension but not a 32-bit one...I do have the 32-bit version of Notepad++ installed so I'm not quite sure why it's showing in the 64-bit menu
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Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
Good afternoon all,
I use NPP quite a bit as well and wanted it displayed in my context menu at all times. I have NPP x86 installed on a Windows 10 x64 machine. I applied a small registry change and it now displays no matter what context menu I have selected : Here is the REG snippet. Save this text as NPP.REG on your machine. Edit the path if necessary. Once done, double-click it to merge with your registry (at your own risk).
After merging, you should see the Edit with Notepad++ in your context menu. I don't recall if you need to reboot or not for it to show up.
I use NPP quite a bit as well and wanted it displayed in my context menu at all times. I have NPP x86 installed on a Windows 10 x64 machine. I applied a small registry change and it now displays no matter what context menu I have selected : Here is the REG snippet. Save this text as NPP.REG on your machine. Edit the path if necessary. Once done, double-click it to merge with your registry (at your own risk).
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Edit with Notepad++]
"Icon"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Edit with Notepad++\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe\" \"%1\""
Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
Would it not be the best option to simply show 32 & 64 bit Kontext menu entries in one menu at once?
Perhaps customizeable which entries you want to see.
I recognized now that several of the entries from the context menu shown in the explorer are in xyplorer only visible in the 64bit menu.
Important is notepad++, but at least here is a solution shown for this topic.
Or simpy using only 64bit menu if the 32 bit entries (from xyplorer) are not needed...
Perhaps customizeable which entries you want to see.
I recognized now that several of the entries from the context menu shown in the explorer are in xyplorer only visible in the 64bit menu.
Important is notepad++, but at least here is a solution shown for this topic.
Or simpy using only 64bit menu if the 32 bit entries (from xyplorer) are not needed...
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Re: Show edit with notepad++ on the right click menu
The shell context menu is owned by Windows, and Windows is careful not to mix up the two bitness worlds.
Would be nice but is not possible. Well, not easily possible. I could emulate the shell context menu by looking into registry myself. But this is not one of my life plans at the moment.
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