Site: http://binaryfortress.com/NotepadReplacer/
ShortName: BinaryFortress.com/NotepadReplacer
Description:
Notepad++ is my editor of choice. The challenge is that I can never remember how to make it my default editor that opens instead of Notepad.. Yes, I can change file associations, but that fixes only part of the problem. I don't want to ever see Window's internal Notepad.exe application and while there are many ways to accomplish this, one of the easiest is to modify the registry and have it point to a script or application that redirects the open request.
This utility takes the headache out of that process by doing it all for you, through a simple GUI interface. Simply run the install and you're done!
If you ever want to go back to Windows default application, uninstalling the application will accomplish this for you.
Alternately, you could delete the newly created key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
otepad.exe
Created: 16 Sep 2013 08:48
Updated: 16 Sep 2013 08:53