Notepad++ starting REALLY slow and not showing text [closed]

Question

I'm just going crazy about this but I can't find a solution so I'm here to ask for a help.

I've always used Notepad++ but since I've updated to Windows 10 it started not working.

When I open it N++ takes a long time (like.... A LONG time) to be operative (in the meanwhile it stays in "Not Responding").

When finally it unfreezes and I open a file, no text is shown BUT if I try to copy something and paste it somewhere else it does it correctly so I guess it's not a problem of encoding of stuff like these.....

I've tried many times to uninstall N++, clear all the files on the HDD and even eliminate registry keys but when I install it again nothing changes....

I'm desperate please help me!!!

Answer 1

Some ideas to try to identify the problem:

1. Make sure you don't have any file loaded before closing notepad++. Specially files on net shares
2. If using the project tree Window (Folder as Workspace), try to close it. Specially if you have a huge workspace
3. Check executable compatibility mode. Is it changed?
4. Disable any 'check for updates' option (this includes notepad++ check for itself and also all plugins that have a similar option)
5. Uninstall/disable any notepad++ plugin
6. Try with a portable version. On the notepad++ site there are both installers and zip packages
7. Try with 32bit and 64bit versions
8. Try to delete this folder: "%APPDATA%\Notepad++" (maps to C:\Users\YOUR_USER\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++)
9. Try to temporarily disable the antivirus. Or add some exception to the path of Notepad++/Notepad++ portable
10. Create a clean new user and run it from there. Perhaps this is something wrong with some registry keys, so a clean state could work

The official site is here. (Just in case you downloaded it from elsewhere)

Answer 2

I started having this issue too recently, and found that I had opened up a text file on my network at work, made some changes but hadn't saved it. Then when I got home (where I didn't have access to the network) Notepad++ opened really slow...