{"id":22783,"date":"2019-05-06T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:37:30","slug":"force-windows-to-open-txt-files-with-32-bit-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/force-windows-to-open-txt-files-with-32-bit-notepad\/","title":{"rendered":"Force Windows to open .txt files with 32-bit Notepad++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Situation:<\/strong>  When Windows opens a .txt file it will only launch the 64-bit version of Notepad++. How does the user force Windows to open .txt files with the 32-bit Windows, when both the 32-bit and 64-bit Notepad++ are installed?  The usual routes of Windows file association and using the Notepad++ Preferences settings have both failed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reason for wanting 32-bit:<\/strong> The user may prefer the older version, for light editing, for the time being. Because it supports useful plugins such as MultiClip Viewer and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Open the Windows Registry editor (Start: &#8216;Regedit&#8217;) and navigate down to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\/software\/classes\/applications\/notepad++.exe\/shell\/open\/command<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There replace the 64-bit file path with the 32-bit path. Which means, for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>C:\\Program Files\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>to<\/p>\n<p><em>C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and then exit the Registry Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation: When Windows opens a .txt file it will only launch the 64-bit version of Notepad++. How does the user &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/05\/06\/force-windows-to-open-txt-files-with-32-bit-notepad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}