Reinstalling components (something like that)

Mr. Chan · Post by **Mr. Chan** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:21 pm

OK, to make a long story short I wanted to tryout Notepad+ and after figuring out there were about three copies to replace on XP so it wouldn't overwrite it, I got it working.

I eventually ended up using Wordpad and starting to love the RTF format (started writing more and the rich text just made things a lot easier). So I no longer needed NP+, I missed my baby.

The thing is, when I click a txt file now it pops up a couple errors. In addition to the fact it has two listings of Notepad in the shell. See, I replaced NP+ with a backup of the original, however I believe they're confused now.

I uninstalled/reinstalled the Accessories components, but this did not fix it. Any ideas?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:00 pm

format and re-install the OS

Mr. Chan · Post by **Mr. Chan** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:06 pm

haha i just had to reactivate, no way~!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:08 pm

hum... bummer man... wonder if you can copy/paste the folder that notepad is in from an install that still works.

Mr. Chan · Post by **Mr. Chan** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:15 pm

Well, it works...but because of the double entries in the shell, it tries to open the notepad that isn't there by default...instead of opening the correct one.

How could I delete the shell entry?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:52 pm

i'm not 100% sure myself... Regedit and I don't get along very well from previous expierences

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:56 pm

on your winxp disk there sould be a folder called extras and in it you should find regclean or you can grab it off the net. It might fix\delete that entry.