How to Change IE7 View Source Editor

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Viewing the source code of Web page is part and parcel of the Web design process. You can also learn how other people’s Web pages achieve certain effects by viewing their source codes.By default Microsoft will provide notepad to view source of a web page.

If you want to change view source editor from notepad to your favourite editor like notepad2,pspad you need to make sure you have installed any one of these before doing the following steps

Go to start—>Run—> Type regedit click ok

Now you need to navigate the following key from left pane

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
|_ Software
|__ Microsoft
|___ Internet Explorer
|____ View Source Editor

Double click on the following key from right pane

|_____ Editor Name (Default) = C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE

change C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE

to

C:\Program Files\Notepad2\notepad2.exe

Download notepad2 from here

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