Old Notepad.exe

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Though familiar with XP at work I'd deliberately stayed with Win98 at home
till recently as I preferred it for some things, and one of these was
Notepad. I hate the 'new' XP Notepad, and as it's an application I use a heck
of a lot it's already bugging me as I knew it would.

Word-wrapping doesn't work as it used to and I don't want to be able to
change fonts either. I just want the plain old simple text editor I'm used
to, with whatever font it used by default and no other choices, and lines
that don't constantly split where they shouldn't when I change between normal
and maximized views.

Can I simply rename XP's Notepad.exe and substitute the older file from the
previous system? And if I can, will it then work and look just like the old
one did? I'm running XP Pro SP2.
Many thanks.
 
cottager,

I can't answer your question. I've been using Notepad since XP first came
out. And I don't remember the difference between old and new. But, have you
tried using Wordpad? Maybe it will satisfy your needs. Just a thought.

Milt
 
Very grateful for the suggestion, Milt. Yes, if and when necessary for larger
filesizes than the old Notepad can handle, I use Wordpad a lot too, but it's
a more sophisticated 'beast' with formatting options etc and most of what I
use Notepad for doesn't need the extra bells and whistles. A small utility
I've used for years and couldn't live without, to make text notes about
anything stored on the system, opens Notepad by default... I don't think this
can be changed. But thanks for the thought anyway :)
cottager
 
cottager said:
Very grateful for the suggestion, Milt. Yes, if and when necessary for
larger
filesizes than the old Notepad can handle, I use Wordpad a lot too, but
it's
a more sophisticated 'beast' with formatting options etc and most of what
I
use Notepad for doesn't need the extra bells and whistles. A small utility
I've used for years and couldn't live without, to make text notes about
anything stored on the system, opens Notepad by default... I don't think
this
can be changed. But thanks for the thought anyway :)
cottager
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Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE!
 
Hi cottager,

The short answer is I don't know, but it couldn't hurt to try - I don't
think it'll make your machine go bang. The worst case would be that it won't
work.

Did you know you've still got "edit" in the command prompt? It looks and
works the same as the old dos version - it could be what you need.

HTH Tony.
 
I have Windows XP and have added Notepad+, a freebee that beats Microsoft's
Notepad by far. If you select any txt file and open with Notepad+ it will
default to it from then on.

You can get Notpad+ at:

http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/

Give it a try before you say no thanks.
 
cottager said:
Though familiar with XP at work I'd deliberately stayed with Win98 at
home till recently as I preferred it for some things, and one of
these was Notepad. I hate the 'new' XP Notepad, and as it's an
application I use a heck of a lot it's already bugging me as I knew
it would.

Word-wrapping doesn't work as it used to and I don't want to be able
to change fonts either. I just want the plain old simple text editor
I'm used to, with whatever font it used by default and no other
choices, and lines that don't constantly split where they shouldn't
when I change between normal and maximized views.

Can I simply rename XP's Notepad.exe and substitute the older file
from the previous system? And if I can, will it then work and look
just like the old one did? I'm running XP Pro SP2.
Many thanks.
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Actually, I don't think there are ANY differences. Things like Word Wrap
are simply settings you can adjust.

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