How to install notepad plug-in

Important note: Since Notepad v7.6, the plug-in management function is back. Students using v7.6 and newer versions please ignore this experience. On Notepad v7.6, you can install and uninstall plug-ins through the Notepad menu "Plugins"--"Plugin Management" (English version is "Plugins--Plugins Admin...").

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## Notepad is a very easy-to-use free plain text editor software, and its huge plug-in library provides users with more powerful and rich functions. However, I don’t know since which version Notepad has removed the “Plug-in Manager”, leaving us to manually install those feature-rich plug-ins ourselves. Let's not discuss why the author removed the "Plug-in Manager" for the time being. It is not difficult to install plug-ins manually. Next, I will introduce how to install the plug-in manually. The plug-in installation operations described in this experience are applicable to the installation of most plug-ins officially certified by Notepad, but it does not rule out that some extremely special plug-ins require additional operations. If you encounter such a plug-in, please refer to its instructions to install it.

If you are a hands-on expert and familiar with a series of operations of computer software, then the following abbreviated version of the text description is for your reference:

Abbreviated version of experience: 1. Download the plug-in; 2. Copy the dll file in the plug-in to the plugins directory under the notepad installation directory. If the plug-in has doc, copy the doc directory to the plugins directory; 3. Restart Notepad.

Below I will show you how to install the Compare plug-in for Notepad. This is a plugin for comparing two plain text documents.

1. We need to browse Notepad’s official plug-in list and find the Compare plug-in we need. Open Notepad and click the menu "?" in the menu bar. Click "Get Plugin" in the pop-up menu item. The browser that comes with the operating system will automatically open Notepad’s official plug-in list for us.

2. In the plug-in list, click the index letter "C". Quickly locate all plug-ins starting with the letter "C". We can find two Compare Plugins in the list, one is the official certified version and the other is the unofficial version. Here we install the official certified version.

3. Click the Compare Plugin name to enter the plug-in download page. Notepad's official plug-ins are all stored on the Sourceforge.net website. After entering the sourceforge.net website, click the "download" download button to download the Compare plug-in.

4. Unzip the downloaded plug-in compressed package (ComparePlugin.v1.5.6.2.bin.zip). After decompression, we get 1 file ComparePlugin.dll and 1 folder doc.

5. Open the Notepad installation directory. My Notepad is installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad. Copy the dll and doc extracted from the Compare plug-in to the Plugins directory in the Notepad installation directory.

６. Restart Notepad. You will find that there is a Compare menu item in the "Plug-in" menu bar of Notepad. At this point, the installation of the Compare plug-in is complete.

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