-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Metapad install
- From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:12:55 -0700
Jus da facts.......
http://commandwindows.com/batch.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith/agoodread.com" <jtb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:23 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Metapad install
>I have Crimson Editor come up instead of notepad when I click
> View Source. Did the name change like you did but I went in
> physically and changed all the places notepad was in.
>
> So how do you run a bat file???
>
> Judith
> http://www.agoodread.com
>
> Under replacing Notepad with Metapad on Windows XP:
>
> A variation on the method above follows (submitted by Samutz):
>
> I found another way to replace notepad with metapad that
> doesn't require
> you to work too fast. I made a copy of metapad.exe called
> notepad.exe, then
> made a batch file with the following commands:
>
> copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\dllcache
> copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
> copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32
> copy /-y notepad.exe C:\WINDOWS
> Then I saved it as copy.bat and ran it. It prompts for
> overwrite for
> each file, but all you have to hit is Y and Enter a few times. I
> find it
> much easier than trying to flip through folders as fast as I can
> to paste it
> before Windows replaces it.
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