I believe in maximising windows on the grounds that my eyes are faster than my fingers. I can scan a screen quickly, but using PgDn is relatively slow.
The web page “Notepad files always open as a very small window - Stack Overflow.htm” advises me that:-
(1) One solution would be to “... create shortcut for every single notepad file?”
(2) I can “Resize window to the desired size and position”, but I don’t want a re-sized to-be-large window. I want it maximised.
(3) I can “Resize window to the desired size and position”, but I don’t want a specific solution. I want Notepad to open a maximised window not just when I manually open Notepad.exe; I want the maximised window whenever I execute a TXT, LOG, BAS, CLS or any other generic text file.
From that same page I have learned how to create a .CMD file containing
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cmd.exe /c start /max C:\Windows\system32\Notepad.exe %1But I would rather not repeat this “Choose Default Program” step with every new type of text file I encounter. My current list of notepad-associated extents is disgustingly large, and grows with each project I develop. (OK, OK, files of type *.BIN20161203_1053 were a mistake. They no longer exist and I am in the market for a registry cleaner)
But still and all I’d like to do away with Notepad.exe completely as a file-opening mechanism and replace it with my new-found friend Notepad.cmd.
My options seem to be:-
(1) Perform some devious registry hack with RegEdit
(2) Somehow hide Notepad.exe from Win7HP and rename my Notepad.cmd as Notepad.exe. That is, fool Windows.
(3) Other suggestions?
I think an added complication arises with BAT files. I want to run/execute them with the old CMD process, and that happens right now. But when I right-click to edit a bat file, I want it to be Notepad.cmd that edits the file, with its maximised window, not notepad.exe.
Cheers Chris
