How to make Notepad++ take over from the standard notepad.exe

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Published on 2009-11-27T10:05:56Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 3:59 UTC
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I could do this easily with TextPad, then I got irritated with Textpad once I'd played with Notepad++.

Now that I've removed Textpad:

I want Notepad++ to take over the right-click > Edit option in Explorer, and
I want Notepad++ to come up when I type notepad in the command prompt.

I know that Notepad++ has a shell extension that allows one to do right-click > Edit in Notepad++. But my old right-click > Edit link remains, and I keep finding myself clicking on it, only to be rewarded with an error.

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