If you are developing web pages, the "View Source" feature of Internet Explorer is a very useful feature. You
can see the HTML output for your page. However, Internet Explorer uses a very limited text editer, Microsoft's
NotePad program, to load the Viewed Source code. The following directions will allow you to change the default
program that IE uses to load the Source Code. For this example, we will make
TextPad the default program:
- Click Start, click Run, type "regedit" (without the quotation marks) in the Open box, and click OK.
- In left pane, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
- Right-click Internet Explorer, select New > Key
- Type in "View Source Editor" (without the quotation marks) as the key name
- Right-click View Source Editor, select New > Key.
- Type in "Editor Name" as the key name.
- Click to highlight Editor Name.
- In the right pane, double-click Default.
- Type in the path of the Textpad.exe program. For example:
C:\Program Files\Textpad\textpad.exe
- Click OK, and then close Registry Editor.
If you wanted a different text editor to be the default, just put in the path of that program's .exe file.
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