First:
replace the owner on:
C:\windows\notepad.exe and C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
(Set owner to your user or to administrator just make sure you can write to it)
Then:
Replace permissions on both files (make it so that you have "full permissions")
Then replace both the files with the NPP launcher.
Et viola it works.
;-)
(I can't really take credit for this solution as I found it on this webpage: http://www.mattberther.com/?p=828 although he speaks of replacing it with notepad2)
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Does anyone have any directions to replace notepad with notepad++ in Vista? Thanks in advance.
Anyone? I can't get Vista to let me replace the notepad.exe files in the winsxs directories...
I've found out how to do it:
First:
replace the owner on:
C:\windows\notepad.exe and C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
(Set owner to your user or to administrator just make sure you can write to it)
Then:
Replace permissions on both files (make it so that you have "full permissions")
Then replace both the files with the NPP launcher.
Et viola it works.
;-)
(I can't really take credit for this solution as I found it on this webpage: http://www.mattberther.com/?p=828 although he speaks of replacing it with notepad2)