Notepad update made a mess because it is auto saving, can i edit in regedit? how and where?


Heede

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Hi guys i need to go away from the auto saving to "open in new window" in notepad, but i need to do it for all the computers in the company, is there any way i can solve this in the regedit? this is a very important push. i found and old solution, so it is obsolete. hope there is somebody here that have a solution i can push out to all the computers.

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Heede
 

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The solution is basically the same one as offered for another app:
Windows 11 Snipping Tool 11.2309.16.0 Global Settings

You need to change Notepad's Settings, then export your settings.dat to another user's profile.
Code:
copy "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat" settings.dat
copy settings.dat "C:\Users\AnotherUser\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat"
 

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Hi Garlin
so you are saying there is no way i can push this out to everybody in our company?
because it would be nice with something changing the regestry or such, so i can use endpoint central
 

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This is one more reason why UWP apps model is terrible. MS made bulk user migration easy, since you can transfer users' AppData package folders without disturbing the registry. Which is nice, except you don't get a GPO or API to make up for enforcing changes across all your current (or future) user profiles.

If you want to see how UWP Settings are done:

reg load HKU\TEMP "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Settings\settings.dat"
reg query HKU\TEMP /s
reg unload HKU\TEMP

While you could script something to load everyone's settings.dat, and apply reg updates, this doesn't scale very well. The lazy way to perform this is to overwrite the user's settings.dat, which isn't very polite. And it doesn't help new users, unless you script that too.
 

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