Where to find notepad in vista

I have found older versions of the installer which are supposed to be compatible with Vista on this website which I have downloaded. It appears installer tries to download files from old locations on the web which no longer exist, so the installation fails. We should have the prerogative to keep and use older operating systems and the makers of NPP should make it possible for us to install older version.

This is both a grave tragedy and ridiculous. Can anyone please help? Which version do you try to install? At least there is no intentional break of the backwards compatibility even winxp sp3 should be still supported. Reply Reply as topic. The trick works just as well. When you right-click a file, you can select Open With. From the Open With menu, you can select any file type preregistered for the file other than the default.

You can also use Choose Program to select a nonregistered program like Notepad. From the TechMail archives. Editor's Picks. Linux kernel 5.

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