https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209 Notepad Replacer RSS: Explorer shortcut opens original Windows Notepad on Vista x64 Sun, 31 May 2026 14:43:39 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209 https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209#3 Thu, 05 May 2011 19:46:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209#3 Notepad Replacer Notepad Replacer 1.1.5 is now available and should fix this issue for you:
http://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/

Thanks! ]]> https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209#2 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:55:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209#2 Notepad Replacer Definitely sounds like an issue we should be able to fix pretty easily but I'd like to be able to reproduce it so that we know it's fixed. Could you please outline the steps you took to create the Explorer shortcut to notepad.exe?

Thanks! ]]> https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:45:15 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/Discussions/View/explorer-shortcut-opens-original-windows-notepad-on-vista-x64/?ID=5f9499be-cfb5-4e2a-8bbc-f461439e7209 Notepad Replacer Hi,

I'm using NotepadReplacer 1.1.4 on Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit and, for the most part, it works beautifully. However, if I create an Explorer shortcut to notepad.exe, it opens the standard Windows Notepad rather than the target editor configured by NotepadReplacer (SublimeText, in my case, but the specific editor doesn't matter).

The cause of this problem is that 64-bit Windows has two different Image File Execution Options registry keys; one for 64-bit applications and a second one for 32-bit applications:
1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

The NotepadReplacer installer creates a "notepad.exe" subkey under the second of these (below the Wow6432Node key) but not under the first, which is the one used by Windows Explorer under 64-bit Windows. If I manually create the appropriate notepad.exe key and Debugger value in the first location, then Explorer shortcuts to notepad.exe redirect to the configured editor, as expected:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\notepad.exe]
"Debugger"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Notepad Replacer\\NotepadReplacer.exe"

Thanks for the great utility.

Regards,
Meetoo ]]>