@NuclearBinoculars said:

I DID mean to have a reverse slash…For some reason it did not show up

The reason is that you did not put your text inside proper delimiters (the ones that turn text shown here into a red-on-pinkish background, for example). If you had, it would not have consumed your backslashes. But with your most recent posting you seem to have mastered the delimiters technique, so I’ll say no more… :-)

extra: in case you’re curious, since the OP used %L but my example used %1: see this post for a link describing %1 vs %L in registry entries. In short: it doesn’t really matter in this case, because the difference is only significant on old 16bit windows OS (like Win3.11). On modern Windows, %L and %1 are interchangeable in the registry associations. (Only %1 works in .bat/.cmd files, though, which is why I’ve gotten used to using %1.)

Looks like that worked. Thank you.

Do I need to make a new folder for each .dll and move the .dll in that folder? What about the other folders?

Here’s a screenshot - instead of creating new folders and such, I tried to just move everything from right to left (AppData\Local\Notepad++\plugins) and I saw Plugin again in the menu, but not the Plugin Manager.

Thanks in advance!

@dinkumoil is correct. You could also try installing NotePad++ in local mode where all the files are stored in the application’s folder and %appdata% is not used.

@PeterJones I can not Thank You enough! I started to refurbish a mainly East Coast, Nova Scotia Music website just for fun “No Profit”. This script was used in the Retro Lyrics section. You can check out the site here: RetroLyrics section http://www.rbops.com/RetroLyrics/SevenSpanishAngels.html)

Originally 20 years ago the Lyrics were RTF files with DOC extensions that even if you downloaded them, you could not open them. ha ha So you can imagine after some repair to these files I am impressed. I made most of the site mobile friendly & installed many MP3 players on the artists pages.

All pretty much retired players who had all pretty much played with groups you grew up listening to. Some good ole music.

Thank You Mr. PeterJones & I will definitely be learning some Perl from your example!

[SOLVED]
Worked: ‘File Associations’ in Notepad++ [Settings/Preferences/File Association/Notepad] then add .txt to Registered extensions box:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170302-is-anyone-else-having-trouble-setting-notepad-to-be-the-default-txt-editor