For quite some time now, I experience a weird behavior of Notepad++.
I associated .xml files to Notepad++. For most of the time opening .xml files works fine.
Sometimes though, the file won't open if I drop it into Notepad++ or try to open in with double click.
The only way I can access it is through the open-file dialog.
I observed this in the beginning from certain network storage locations. Today I had it on my local disk also.
I didn't see any settings in notepad++ that gave any indication that they might influence this.
Does anyone know what is the reason for this and also how I can "fix" this?
(Btw: It's not only xml files it seems, but I verified that it happens there!)
Best Answer
Update your Notepad++ to latest version.
Go to the installation folder of Notepad++, e.g c:/program files(x86)/notepad++ or wherever you installed it. Then right click the Notepad++ exe file, choose properties. On properties dialog go to 'compatibility' tab, to the bottom check the check box labeled "Run this program as administrator" and click OK.
This should resolve your problem.