Thursday, April 19, 2012

Notepad++ failed to load config.xml error

Fix is to reset the following file:

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\config.xml

Contents:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>

<NotepadPlus>

<GUIConfigs>

<GUIConfig name="ToolBar" visible="yes">standardGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="StatusBar">showGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="TabBar" dragAndDrop="yes" drawTopBar="yes" drawInactiveTab="yes" reduce="yes" closeButton="no" doubleClick2Close="no" vertical="no" multiLine="no" hide="no" />

<GUIConfig name="ScintillaViewsSplitter">verticalGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="UserDefineDlg" position="undocked">hideGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="TabSetting" size="4" replaceBySpace="yes" />

<GUIConfig name="AppPosition" x="470" y="4" width="1162" height="993" isMaximized="yes" />

<GUIConfig name="ScintillaPrimaryView" lineNumberMargin="show" bookMarkMargin="show" folderMarkStyle="box" indentGuideLine="show" currentLineHilitingShow="show" Wrap="no" edge="no" edgeNbColumn="100" wrapSymbolShow="hide" zoom="-2" whiteSpaceShow="show" eolShow="hide" lineWrapMethod="aligned" zoom2="-1" borderWidth="2" />

<GUIConfig name="Auto-detection">autoGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="CheckHistoryFiles">noGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="TrayIcon">noGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="RememberLastSession">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="NewDocDefaultSettings" format="0" encoding="0" lang="0" codepage="-1" openAnsiAsUTF8="no" />

<GUIConfig name="langsExcluded" gr0="0" gr1="0" gr2="0" gr3="0" gr4="0" gr5="0" gr6="0" gr7="0" langMenuCompact="yes" />

<GUIConfig name="Print" lineNumber="no" printOption="0" headerLeft="$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)" headerMiddle="" headerRight="$(LONG_DATE) $(TIME)" headerFontName="IBMPC" headerFontStyle="1" headerFontSize="8" footerLeft="" footerMiddle="-$(CURRENT_PRINTING_PAGE)-" footerRight="" footerFontName="" footerFontStyle="0" footerFontSize="9" margeLeft="0" margeTop="0" margeRight="0" margeBottom="0" />

<GUIConfig name="Backup" action="0" useCustumDir="no" dir="" />

<GUIConfig name="TaskList">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="SaveOpenFileInSameDir">noGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="noUpdate" intervalDays="15" nextUpdateDate="20080426">noGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="MaitainIndent">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="MRU">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="URL">0GUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="globalOverride" fg="no" bg="no" font="no" fontSize="no" bold="no" italic="no" underline="no" />

<GUIConfig name="auto-completion" autoCAction="0" triggerFromNbChar="1" funcParams="no" />

<GUIConfig name="sessionExt">GUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="SmartHighLight">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="TagsMatchHighLight" TagAttrHighLight="yes" HighLightNonHtmlZone="no">yesGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="MenuBar">showGUIConfig>

<GUIConfig name="Caret" width="1" blinkRate="250" />

<GUIConfig name="ScintillaGlobalSettings" enableMultiSelection="no" />

<GUIConfig name="openSaveDir" value="0" defaultDirPath="" />

<GUIConfig name="titleBar" short="no" />

<GUIConfig name="stylerTheme" path="C:\Users\a-cgomes\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\stylers.xml" />

<GUIConfig name="DockingManager" leftWidth="200" rightWidth="200" topHeight="200" bottomHeight="200">

<PluginDlg pluginName="dummy" id="0" curr="3" prev="-1" isVisible="yes" />

<ActiveTabs cont="0" activeTab="-1" />

<ActiveTabs cont="1" activeTab="-1" />

<ActiveTabs cont="2" activeTab="-1" />

<ActiveTabs cont="3" activeTab="-1" />

<GUIConfig>

<GUIConfigs>

<FindHistory nbMaxFindHistoryPath="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFilter="10" nbMaxFindHistoryFind="10" nbMaxFindHistoryReplace="10" matchWord="yes" matchCase="no" wrap="yes" directionDown="yes" fifRecuisive="yes" fifInHiddenFolder="no" dlgAlwaysVisible="no" fifFilterFollowsDoc="no" fifFolderFollowsDoc="yes" searchMode="0" transparencyMode="1" transparency="150">

<Path name="C:\temp" />

<FindHistory>

<History nbMaxFile="15" inSubMenu="no" customLength="-1">

<File filename="C:\temp\FullRun.log" />

<History>

<ProjectPanels>

<ProjectPanel id="0" workSpaceFile="" />

<ProjectPanel id="1" workSpaceFile="" />

<ProjectPanel id="2" workSpaceFile="" />

<ProjectPanels>

<NotepadPlus>