How to Replace Notepad with Another Text Editor on Windows

This practical guide walks through how to replace Notepad with Another Text Editor on Windows. It organizes the required steps, settings, and checks so you can complete the task with fewer mistakes.

How to replace Notepad With another text editor on Windows will help users change the Notepad editor with a better editor like Notepad++ that supports many languages, has superior features, especially Notepad++ that supports display. displays programming languages very well. Changing notepad with another text editor is also very simple through a few edits in Registry Editor under the instructions below.

How to replace Notepad with another text editor on Windows

Step 1: Select the key combination to open the Run window and type RegeditEnter .

Step 2: On the Registry Editor window, find The notepad. exe Key under the path:

Hkey_local_machinesoftwaremicrosoftwindows Ntcurrentversionimage File Execution Options

Step 3: If you do not see the notepad. exe key, right-select the Image file Execution Options Key, select New -> Key And name the key Notepad. exe

Step 4: In the right pane of the notepad. exe key, right-select the empty space, select New -> String Value And name that value Debugger .

Step 5: Open that Debugger Value, in the Value data Box, enter the path to the editor you want to replace notepad with. For example, if TipsMake wants to replace Notepad with Notepad++, the value is "C: ProgramFiles (x86)Notepad++notepad++. exe" then choose OK to complete.

After setup is complete, you can turn off the Registry Editor window and check that replacing Notepad with another text editor on Windows is completed. With this setting, you can change the default Notepad editor to other editors such as Word versions in Office 2016 tools. As you know, Word 2016 helps you edit text more easily with many Languages, fonts, equations are supported rather than simple Notepad