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How to Make Wordpad Default HTML Editor?

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by ds_davis

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In order to use the Find/Replace funtionality of Wordpad (which Notepad doesn't have) without the excess baggage of Word, I want to change my default HTML editor in Win98/IE 6 to Wordpad. I thought I had the problem licked by editing the Registry entries under HKLM and HCU for Software\Microsoft ... Default HTML Editor\shell\edit, because "Edit with Wordpad" did become the Tool Tip when I placed my mouse pointer over the Edit button on IE's Standard Toolbar, and Wordpad opened with the appropriate HTML when I clicked the button.

But after restarting my computer, though the button and Tool Tip had not changed, it was Word that opened up, not Wordpad.

Does anybody have any ideas what's going on here? Is there some Registry entry that is substituting Word for Wordpad? I've done Registry searches on "Word," "Wordpad" and ".rtf" and found nothing so far.

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by neal2002

Check your file types. Open any folder and open folder options under the tools menu. Under the files types tab you can set what program opens a file. This is where you can set wordpad to open any file extension you choose.

by saihib

Select any html file. Hold down the shift key and right click on the file. Choose "open with" and then "choose program". When the dialogue box pops up scroll down and select Wordpad and make sure the box "use this program to open these files" is checked.

by ds_davis

Unfortunately this would not work, because when I hold Shift and right-click an HTML file, Open With is not on the context menu. Also, I believe this would cause HTML files to open in Wordpad instead of IE. What I want to do is view the source of an HTML in Wordpad when I click the Edit button in IE.

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