How can i replace notepad in Windows Vista

[Dharmesh Arora]

I'm running Windows Vista as my operating system. I would like to know that how can i replace my notepad in Windows Vista. Is there any other good tool which can easily replace my notepad on my Windows Vista? Does any body knows about it? Kindly provide me the correct logical solution for the above issue. Any kind of help on the above issue would be appreciated.

[Eric B]

You need to just follow the below steps mention.

• Just open your command-prompt with administrator priveleges (right-click, run as administrator). If you have UAC disabled then you can open a regular command-prompt.
• Take ownership of notepad.exe using takeown /f c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe
• Then have a full access rights using cacls c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe /G <username>:F (replacing <username> with your username)
• Then by using Explorer, replace notepad.exe with the editor you would like to use after renaming it to notepad.exe
• If by chance you are using Notepad2 to replace Notepad you would just need to rename Notepad2.exe to Notepad.exe

[Glenny]

1) First you need to download notepad2 from the free website

2) Then you need to Rename Notepad2.exe to notepad.exe.

3) Then try to find c:\windows\notepad.exe and c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe and set the owner to ‘Administrators’, and grant Administrators full control.

4) Then by using Windows Explorer, drag and drop the renamed notepad2.exe to c:\windows and c:\windows\system32.