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Change Default IE source viewer Cris Barbero

August 13th, 2008

Many aspects of Internet Explorer are just downright annoying.  Therefore, it’s always nice when I find a way to customize one of the parts that I don’t like.  Anyone like me who loathes the built-in Windows Notepad and has replaced it with an alternate text editor (i.e. NotePad++ or NotePad2) will want to change the default application used to ‘View Source’ in IE.  To accomplish this change the value of the registry key  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name] to the application you would like to use.

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  1. 2 Responses to “Change Default IE source viewer”

  2. By Ryan on Aug 14, 2008 | Reply

    I have always hated that IE uses notepad when viewing page source. Unfortunately, I’ve searched my registry and I do not have this key/path on my machine. I added it in the hopes that it would work but no luck…… Any ideas? I searched for ‘View Source Editor’ and it came up with nothing (other than the one I added).

  3. By Cris Barbero on Aug 14, 2008 | Reply

    You might have to restart windows for IE to recognize that registry setting.

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