Replace "Notepad" with "Ultraedit" in Windows 10

Replace "Notepad" with "Ultraedit" in Windows 10 2016-11-08 12:16

Replace "Notepad" with "Ultraedit" in Windows 10

That is, when you type "notepad(Not notepad.exe)" in Windows 10 menu, try to calling notepad, Windows 10 will find and execute "Ultraedit" for you.

This will help a lot because Windows 10 usually reboot your box after Windows Update and "DID NOT SAVE" your notepad documents at all.

On the other hand, ultraedit did save/backup and recover for you. Ultraedit could revive your unsaved files after a forced software restart.

Here comes the HOWTO:

Step-1: Find out "notepad shortcut" and open properties

(1.1) Press "Windows Key"
(1.2) Key-in "notepad", you will find notepad shortcut
(1.3) Right click on the notepad shortcut, select "Open File location"
(1.4) File explorer will open to folder contained notepad shortcut (not notepad.exe)
(1.5) Right Click on the notepad shortcut and press Properties(R)
(1.6) You will see properties dialog of this shortcut pop out.
(1.7) Usually, it is likely be "%windir%/system32/notepad.exe" in "Properties -> Target" field.

Step-2: Find out "ultraedit shortcut" and open properties

(2.1) Press "Windows Key"
(2.2) Keyin "ultraedit", you will find ultraedit shortcut
(2.3) Right click on the ultraedit shortcut, select "Open File location"
(2.4) File explorer will open to folder containted ultraedit shortcut (not uedit32.exe or uedit64.exe)
(2.5) Right Click on the ultraedit shortcut and press Properties(R)
(2.6) You will see properties dialog of this shortcut pop out.
(2.7) Usually, it is likely be "C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\uedit64.exe" in "Target" field.

Step-3: Then, it is simple, just copy the ultraedit target field to notepad shortcut

(3.1) Just copy the ultraedit shortcut target field values

Re: Replace "Notepad" with "Ultraedit" in Windows 10 2016-11-08 12:17

how-to: replace notepad target with uedit64.exe or uedit32.exe

notepad-shortcut-as-notepad.jpg

notepad-shortcut-as-ultraedit.jpg

ultraedit-replace-notepad-shortcut.jpg

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Re: Replace "Notepad" with "Ultraedit" in Windows 10 2016-11-08 13:07

Q: What if I still want to run "original notepad.exe"?

Answer:
The answer is straightforward, just key-in "notepad.exe", with the "dot-exe" extention filename, since it is located at system32 folder, it was also be indexed anytime.

What we replaced here is shortcut(also indexed by windows),
NOT the exe file itself.

notepadexe-wont-be-replaced.jpg

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