View Source from IE returns error with UE being registered as HTML viewer

[super8dave]

How do I turn off UltraEdit from being my default for "View->Source" in IE. It constantly returns some stupid error like this.

Error: Access violation at 0x77C43283 (tried to read from 0x00D5C000), program terminated.

I just installed UE 10.20b (after using UE 9 for over a year) and that's when the default view source started trying to open in UE. I just want view source in IE to open up with notepad again.

Thanks

[Mofi]

Often discussed in the old forum! Here again what you have to do to view source with notepad again, copied from the old forum.

At http://www.advantagecommunication.com/blog/tech.html you can find the answer, why problems occur with UE as source viewer and how to assign UE as source editor correctly. You can also use the description there and only change Uedit32.exe to notepad.exe to use notepad as source viewer.

You can also easily delete the following key in the registry with regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor

When this registry key does not exist, IE opens the file with notepad.

[Fontee]

The version that I have just downloaded (10.20b) didn't even have this as an option anywhere (NOT using Ultraedit as the default editor in MSIE).

It would have been nice to have this as an option in Ultraedit. Some of us like to keep Notepad as the default editor - hence why it's set to be so in the Internet explorer settings (control panel).

What's wrong in respecting what's already in Windows?

[rmit]

Fontee, I agree - I'm one who wants to just use Notepad for a quick html view and changes.
There are some things I want UltraEdit for, but I want to open UltraEdit myself in those instances.

I did the regedit thing to change mine back to Notepad as default html editor.

Open regedit (start / run / type regedit)

expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / software / Microsoft / Internet Explorer /

View Source Editor / Editor Name

Double click to highlight "Editor Name"

Double click "(Default)" icon in right screen

In the "Edit String" window that opens, under "Value Data," type:

C:\Windows\notepad.exe

Click OK

Close regedit

[Mofi]

UltraEdit does not specify itself as HTML source viewer in Internet Explorer. It just adds itself to the list of source viewers.

All editors capable editing HTML files I ever installed (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Word, ...) has added itself to the list of source viewers. So if 1 or more source viewers are already registered, adding UltraEdit to the list will not change anything.

The real problem is that Microsoft has not registered Notepad as source viewer and simply uses Notepad, if no source viewer is registered. So the first program, which registers itself as possible source viewer for HTML files is automatically used by IE as source viewer. The editors have to add itself to the list of source viewers, because no user can do it manually (except the user is an expert and knows how and where to modify the registry).

See also UltraEdit takes over Windows Notepad as source viewer in IE

Did the installer of UltraEdit not asked you about setting UltraEdit as IE viewer for webpages?

[vroom]

Okay, no offense, but whether or not MS or IE are doing something wrong, the correct course of action is to make sure not to inconvenience users.

I just installed the latest version of UE, which I've been using for many years, and now all of a sudden I am opening up a new UE window every time I view source.

Unfortunately, for some reason having multiple windows open also unsets all my FTP account settings due to some INI issue.

Anyway, I certainly didn't NOTICE anything asking me if UE should become my new right click view source application. The proper course of action for an installation program is to leave actions as they already are, because you have absolutely no idea of the sophistication of the user doing the installation.

Heh, lucky for me I've been an Internet developer for the last decade, so I can eventually find my way around the problem.

Please don't just say "so what" or "why would you want to" when you have actual potential paying users who have expectations. That is a common but improper attitude in the technical industry... perhaps most exemplied by Microsoft who always makes things conform to their needs, not ours. Please don't support the emulation of that behavior.