Settings#
XML Notepad stores your user settings in a file located in this folder, by default:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Xml Notepad\XmlNotepad.settings
The settings include the last size and location of the window, a list of most recently opened files, recent find strings, and all the things you see in the Options Dialog.
You can change where XML Notepad stores the settings file
if you go to the Options Dialog and change the
Settings Location option. The options are:
| Name | Location |
|---|---|
| Portable | Stored where ever XmlNotepad.exe was installed |
| Local | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Xml Notepad\ |
| Roaming | %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Xml Notepad\ |
The Roaming folder might be automatically migrated to all your machines because it associated with a Roaming User Profile.
The Portable option makes it easy for you to xcopy the folder to other machines and get the same
settings. This option will not be available if you are running XML Notepad in a folder that is read
only (like c:\Program Files).
Changing the Settings Location option moves the XmlNotepad.settings file accordingly. This
means you should not have multiple XmlNotepad.settings files in all these locations, if you do it
will search in this priority order:
- Portable
- Local
- Roaming
and it will use the first one that it finds.
Settings Template#
o make it easier to pre-configure XML notepad across a bunch of machines, you can provide a
customized XmlNotepad.template.settings template file next to XmlNotepad.exe and the first time
a user launches XmlNotepad on a machine it will use this template for the initial default settings
for that user, which is then copied to the Roaming location.