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Main Forum => Tweaking.com Support & Help => Topic started by: fjjr on April 02, 2017, 10:02:06 am
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When I recently ran windows repair, I selected a tweak to add open with notepad to the file context menu of my XP machine. Unfortunately, it has not achieved that aim, and also, each time when I reboot, I get 3 instances of notepad open with no content, which are only a nuisance to have to close again, but it appears that something has gone wrong. Can you please advise:
1. How to achieve the intended result
2. How to fix the opening of unwanted instances of notepad; and
3. How to reverse a tweak if need be (simply run the tweak think again but with that particular tweak deselected?)
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I've passed this on.
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- Are you on a non-english XP system ?
- When Windows Repair (WR) is run then it resets a number of "Open with ........... " associations (Repair #23).
- Solution ?? Try the following: Put that tweak in a *.bat or *.reg file and run that file after you've run WR.
- The WR PRO version allows the user to automatically run those tweaks after WR has done its job.
(Make a backup of the registry because those associations are stored in the registry).
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OK - I;ve never heard of this one before, but hey... Every day brings something new.
1st. The rg tweak for notepad is is a pretty simple one, but instead of me typing it out. Here;s a good article on how to do it manually.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-open-with-notepad-to-the-context-menu-for-all-files/
Is the correct entry there?
After that clikc start >> Run >> and type msconfig in the box. Then enter. Click the startup tab. Anything in there say noetpad?
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Thanks Willy2. It is an English version, I believe.
Thanks jpm. Eventually I found the entry in the context menu inserted by windows repair - it was entitled "open", and I had not found it before because it was not present in the context menu of a .reg file, although I did find it in the context menu of a .rtf file. I also created my another entry following the instructions you referred me to, and that did cause Open with Notepad, as I had named the key, to appear in the context menu. The only difference between the key created by windows repair and the key I created manually so far as I could see was that I had named the subkey "Command", whereas that in the key created by windows repair was named "command". I noticed that I was unable to change the name of either key only by changing the case from upper to lower, or vice versa, but on trying to do so got a message that the registry editor could not rename it because a key of the name chosen already existed. This suggested that the naming is not case sensitive, and so I can only wonder why the entry made by windows repair would not appear in the context menu of a .reg file.
I will send some images.
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Ps I should have added that there are no startups shown in msconfig for notepad. I can find no startups for notepad in startup organiser by MetaProducts. There are no links in any startup folder - see uploaded everything search. I do note that there is a copy of notepad.exe in both C:\windows and C:\windows\system32. I do not know why that should be, but see no reason why it should cause the program to run on startup. Any ideas why Notepad opens automatically when I reboot?
Is there any way to reverse any of the tweaks in Windows Repair?
Incidentally, I do have the pro version.
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Pps
I have rebooted and no longer get notepad opening on bootup, so I think that deleting the registry entry that windows repair created fixed the problem, and that the new manually created registry key does not cause notepad to open on bootup. Curious - I have no idea why the tweaking created key should have had that effect, since it was the same as the one I created except in the respects that I mentioned above.
I would be interested in any light anyone can shine on this, and also how one can use windows repair to reverse a tweak that it has created.