Installing SP2 brought back good ol' Notepad... what a shock. So I performed my usual steps for replacing Notepad with
Florian Balmer
's excellent
Notepad2
:
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Create backup copy of
c:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe
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Change Explorer view options to show system files
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In temporary folder: Prepare new
notepad.exe
.
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Copy the EXE into the clipboard
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Open folder
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache
in Explorer
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Ctrl-V, Backspace
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Ctrl-V, Backspace
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Ctrl-V, Backspace
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Answer the "insert WinXP CD" dialog so Notepad won't be reverted to the original version.
But this time the dialog didn't appear and after a few seconds Notepad was changed back to the original (huh, what original? Didn't I just overwrite the version in the dllcache directory?).
Well, with SP2 there's a
Notepad.exe
in
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
that will overwrite the replaced versions. After creating a backup copy of
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\Notepad.exe
and replacing this file with the new EXE I tried to replace Notepad again -- with success (even though no dialogs appeared).
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