Oh my, it's been so long since my last post. Since beginning to learn playing the piano about 8 weeks ago, I unknowingly shut down my blogging activities. Well, let's restart this blog with a small Vista centered post.

I guess most of you will agree, that the integrated Notepad isn't really the big bang, right? App. 3 years ago Roland blogged about replacing the standard Notepad with the really nice Notepad2 in Windows XP SP2. Today I will show you how to do that in Windows Vista.

How-To

Notepad.exe resides in two places:

• c:\windows
• c:\windows\system32

You have to replace it at both locations performing the following steps:

• Make sure that you are logged in with an Administrator account
• Change the owner to the current account or the Administrators group
  • Right click on notepad.exe
  • Select Properties
  • Select Security tab
  • Click on Advanced
  • Select Owner tab
  • Click Edit
  • Select the current user or the Administrators group in the Change owner to list
  • Close all dialogs with OK
• Set Full control rights to the current account or the Administrators group
  • Right click on notepad.exe
  • Select Properties
  • Select Security tab
  • Click on Edit
  • Select the current user or the Administrators group in the Group or user names list
  • Activate the Full control Checkbox in the Permissions for Administrators list
  • Close all dialogs with OK
• Rename notepad2.exe to notepad.exe and replace the standard notepad.exe by overwriting it