Friday, May 26, 2006
Friday, May 19, 2006
Flo's notepad2.exe rocks!
I really like notepad2 with its syntax colouring for C# etc. I like it so much (kudos to flo) that I took that additional step and nuked the original notepad.exe so that whenever I run notepad.exe from anywhere (e.g. start->run->notepad.exe) it launches flo's notepad2.exe instead.
There are various blogs that tell you how to do this and I lifted my means collectively from those blogs, but here is my fail safe gathering of those blogs which I have tested under XP and 2003. Before you try these steps, read the rest of this blog entry before you commence the steps - you've been warned!!!
1) In the folder you unpacked Notepad2.exe, rename Notepad2.exe to notepad.exe
2) In windows explorer, make sure Tools->Folder Options->View:
Show hidden Files radio button is selected
Make sure 'Hide protected operating system files' is unchecked [naughty Windows hiding stuff from us ;]
3) Crank up 3 separate windows expolorer windows (and that is an important thing to do!)
Get the first one to look at C:\Windows\System32\DllCache [can't see it huh? Go look at step (2) and make sure you comply!]
Get the second one to look at C:\Windows\System32
Get the third one to look at C:\Windows
Get the fourth one to look at the directory where flo's newly named notepad.exe lives
4) In the fourth window, select the new notepad.exe, right mouse button down and choose the 'Copy' menu item
5) Now, in this order, right mouse button down in the right hand pane of each of the three explorer windows and choose the menu option 'Paste':
C:\Windows\System32\DllCache
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Windows
6) Now close all four windows explorer windows [you hadn't closed them after each paste had you!!??] and try Start->Run->notepad.exe and see what you get ;)
By the way, if you get a dialog pop up about windows protection then just push the cancel button as is the norm for any MS dialog with more than 4 words
There are various blogs that tell you how to do this and I lifted my means collectively from those blogs, but here is my fail safe gathering of those blogs which I have tested under XP and 2003. Before you try these steps, read the rest of this blog entry before you commence the steps - you've been warned!!!
1) In the folder you unpacked Notepad2.exe, rename Notepad2.exe to notepad.exe
2) In windows explorer, make sure Tools->Folder Options->View:
Show hidden Files radio button is selected
Make sure 'Hide protected operating system files' is unchecked [naughty Windows hiding stuff from us ;]
3) Crank up 3 separate windows expolorer windows (and that is an important thing to do!)
Get the first one to look at C:\Windows\System32\DllCache [can't see it huh? Go look at step (2) and make sure you comply!]
Get the second one to look at C:\Windows\System32
Get the third one to look at C:\Windows
Get the fourth one to look at the directory where flo's newly named notepad.exe lives
4) In the fourth window, select the new notepad.exe, right mouse button down and choose the 'Copy' menu item
5) Now, in this order, right mouse button down in the right hand pane of each of the three explorer windows and choose the menu option 'Paste':
C:\Windows\System32\DllCache
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Windows
6) Now close all four windows explorer windows [you hadn't closed them after each paste had you!!??] and try Start->Run->notepad.exe and see what you get ;)
By the way, if you get a dialog pop up about windows protection then just push the cancel button as is the norm for any MS dialog with more than 4 words
Monday, May 01, 2006
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