Can’t display notepad status bar
You may know that notepad has a nifty little feature called a status bar - this can make notepad much more useful by displaying line numbers, which is ideal if you are looking through code. Unfortunately, by default you can’t display the notepad status bar as it is greyed out. So, to turn the status bar on…
- Open regedit, ‘Start - Run - regedit.exe’ - hit enter
- Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT _USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad
- In here, double click on the ‘StatusBar’ option and change the Value data to 1
That’s it!
January 12th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Cheers for this, worked a treat, but why the hell was it greyed out in the first place?
October 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
The Status Bar option is greyed out if Notepad is in “Word Wrap” mode.
Turn off Word Wrap from the Format menu and the Status bar option will be available.
I assume this is beacuse it is somewhat meaningless to have line numbers displayed in Word Wrap mode; the number of line then depends on how wide you make the Notepad window.
January 14th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
“I assume this is beacuse it is somewhat meaningless to have line numbers displayed in Word Wrap mode; the number of line then depends on how wide you make the Notepad window.”
The line numbers shouldn’t change even if text wraps. This is just yet another example of poor software from Microsoft. If line one wraps onto 2 lines then the second line down is STILL line 1 and the software should be clever enough to cope with that. Other editors do, why not notepad?
June 13th, 2011 at 2:59 am
@Steve…
It is so easy to sit and complain about anyone for their creation. This technology is not meant for people who are dumb to understand how it works. If you are a person who knows how this works, you wouldnt crib like an idiot. If you dont like it dont use it. Buy a pc with softwares which are smart like you…!!! I hope u know what is sarcasm…!!!