System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
I have 2 types of accounts on my laptop: Administrator (Admin) & Standard User (User)
I installed Notepad++ from the Admin account in the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++.
For the User account, I was able to execute within a Command Prompt window:
.txt=C:\Apps\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
From then on, double clicking on a .txt file in the User account would launch notepad++.
For the Admin account, I repeated the above command within a Command Prompt window. However double clicking on a .txt file in the Admin account does NOT launch notepad++. Instead this dialog box opens: "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". So I click on Browse in this dialog box, navigate to the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++, select notepad++.exe, click on Open. But notepad++ never shows up in the dialog box. I can NOT get Windows 7 to associate .txt files with notepad++ for the Admin account. Note that in the Admin account I CAN navigate in Windows Explorer to the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++, double click on notepad++.exe and Notepad++ launches. So this appears to not be a permission problem in the Admin account??
One other interesting note... If I installed notepad++ to the default folder under C: and NOT to C:\Apps, the above association DOES work for the Admin account but NOT for the User account. Weird. That is why I installed notepad++ to C:\Apps\notepad++ -- I needed .txt files to be associated with notepad++ in the User account since that is where I do most of my work.
Why CAN I launch .txt files with notepad++ in the User account but I can NOT do this in the Admin account?
Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to fix this?
I have 2 types of accounts on my laptop: Administrator (Admin) & Standard User (User)
I installed Notepad++ from the Admin account in the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++.
For the User account, I was able to execute within a Command Prompt window:
.txt=C:\Apps\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
From then on, double clicking on a .txt file in the User account would launch notepad++.
For the Admin account, I repeated the above command within a Command Prompt window. However double clicking on a .txt file in the Admin account does NOT launch notepad++. Instead this dialog box opens: "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". So I click on Browse in this dialog box, navigate to the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++, select notepad++.exe, click on Open. But notepad++ never shows up in the dialog box. I can NOT get Windows 7 to associate .txt files with notepad++ for the Admin account. Note that in the Admin account I CAN navigate in Windows Explorer to the folder C:\Apps\Notepad++, double click on notepad++.exe and Notepad++ launches. So this appears to not be a permission problem in the Admin account??
One other interesting note... If I installed notepad++ to the default folder under C: and NOT to C:\Apps, the above association DOES work for the Admin account but NOT for the User account. Weird. That is why I installed notepad++ to C:\Apps\notepad++ -- I needed .txt files to be associated with notepad++ in the User account since that is where I do most of my work.
Why CAN I launch .txt files with notepad++ in the User account but I can NOT do this in the Admin account?
Can anyone tell me what is going on and how to fix this?
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
