Notepad/Wordpad question

Oswald Osbourne

Situation : When ever one opens a *.txt file of a large size the computer decides it can't open it with notepad.exe and decides instead to offer to open the *.txt file with wordpad.exe.

For me thiis is not a major problem. The problem is it ASKS me do I want to do this alternative arrangement EVERYTIME it needs to do this - to which the answer of course is always YES!

So I was wondering is there a way (in Win98) to tell the computer to automatically comply everytime the scenario (of needing to use wordpad) occurs?

tribble

I'm sure there is a registry hack (start>run>regedit) that would do precisly what you
want.

Another solution is to siimply use wordpad all the time.
To make windows default to wordpad simply hold shift, right click on any .txt file and click "Open with" (win 2k and XP users may have to click "Choose program" aswell) on the resulting drop box.
Select wordpad and tick the "Allways use this...." box.

tribble

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If you open Windows Explorer, go to the Tools menu & then select the Folder OPtions menu item.
Then click on the File Types tab, find TXT or whatever extension your text files has, and associate that extension with Wordpad.

Capt'n Midnight

I'm sure some nice person would post a link to a replacement for notepad that runs on win9x and handles text files > 64K

Karoma

download.com has tons on offer (note tab, note plus, note this, note that)
Personally, i like textpad ( www.textpad.com [shareware], i believe). it might be a bit bloated for your liking but i'd strongly recommend you give it a try.

Diddy Kong

try context, lovely editor, can use it for programming aswell....