Changes to Notepad in Vista prevent cheating

[Randall Lewis]

Here's a difference in Vista I've not seen discussed. Venerable Notepad has
been changed so that it will not save XML files anymore- at least not anyway
I've found. I learned this because there is a game I installed on Vista that
contains an XML file that I have previously edited and saved with Notepad on
XP to (ahem) allow me to cheat. When I tried to edit the same file under
Vista, Notepad opened the document but would not save it. I got around this
by copying the file to a thumbdrive and editing it on my XP machine then
brining it back to my Vista machine. I don't want to lose my cheats
afterall!

 

[Daniel E Jameson]

Hi,

I just created and saved an xml file with notepad.
1. I opened Notpad from Start Menu
2. I typed some XML.
3. I did a save, choosing Save as type = All files, and I typed FooBar.xml
as the name, and then I clicked save. No problems.

4. I double clicked the file that showed up with an XML icon, and IE opened
up it's XML tree (after I allowed the ActiveX control).

5. I right clicked the file and chose Open with > Notepad.
6. I edited the XML
7. I tapped Ctrl-S to save
8. I double clicked the icon and IE opened with the new XML tree.

It seems your problem is something other than Notepad. Maybe permissions?

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Daniel Jameson
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[PapaJohn]

I checked it too... opened an xml file with Notepad, edited it and saved....
no issue.

 

[Troy McClure]

you dont even have to change it to "all files". just simply type the entire
name of the file, including extension in double quotes... but yeah, i can
create, edit, save, xml just fine

 

[Steve Cochran]

The file was probably read only and so you couldn't save it back with the
same filename.

steve