Mar 28 2010

Notepad++ Plugin Manager and NppExec prompting for Updates frequently (Fixed)

Category: Opensource,Vista,Windows 7 — Kamlesh @ 11:19 am

Since a month, whenever I launched Notepad++, it was finding Plugin Manager updates and prompting me to update online. The updates were shown for both Plugin Manager and NppExec components (Refer the current and new version details below):

Available updates for Notepad++ Plugins

Everytime, I used to choose “YES” for online updates; it used to download the updates, show me progress bar and restart Notepad++.

Downloading Notepad++ Plugin updates

Strangely this used to happen regularly – I was wondering why is Notepad++ team releasing so frequent updates!!!  When I digged into the problem, I came to know that my Updates where not getting applied on Windows 7 due to permission issues.

To fix this, you have to start Notepad++ as Administrator and then run Plugin Manager updates.  It’s the similar problem with Notepad++ Updater, as I wrote in my last post.  My existing Plugin Manger version (Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> About) is now having the latest version 0.9.3.1 released in February 2010:

Plugins -> Plugin Manager -> About

Hope this helps you to fix your problem.

Mar 21 2010

Notepad++ Update Error – The requested operation requires elevation

Category: Opensource,Vista,Windows 7 — Kamlesh @ 4:39 pm

Recently when I tried to Update Notepad++ online on Windows 7 Operating System, I received “The requested operation requires elevation.” error (Exception 1002).  Such errors were not seen earlier on Windows XP Operating System.

Notepad++ Update Error

This error appears because Notepad++ needs Administrative rights in Windows 7/Vista.  To fix this problem, start Notepad++ with Run as Administrator option and then try Update option.

Notepad++ - Run as Administrator

Notepad++ (latest version 5.6.8) is one of the most popular Open Source Text Editor, which is available freely for developers.  Its very useful for Administrator permission to execute the Updater.

Applies to: Windows 7, Windows Vista

Jun 02 2009

Vista Clock stopped!

Category: Vista — Kamlesh @ 10:02 pm

Yesterday evening, my Vista clock on bottom taskbar (notification area) stopped ticking (at 5:07pm). When I clicked the time, the Date/Time window opened, where the time was still ticking correctly. After performing a logoff and login operation, this problem was resolved. I am not sure what went wrong, is this a bug Microsoft is aware of? I am using Vista Ultimate SP1 on x86 platform.

Nov 06 2008

Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device

Category: USB,Vista — Kamlesh @ 9:29 pm

While trying to safely remove USB Mass Storage Device, I am getting following error message in Vista Ultimate:

Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
Windows can’t stop your ‘Generic volume’ device because it is in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device, and then try again later.

Screenshot of same error:

I closed all Open programs, but the error still exists! How do I identify which process is using the USB drive?

Hope I get a solution soon. Keep watching this space….

If you are aware of this problem and solution, then please leave a comment for me here.

Jan 19 2007

Are you ready to get in?

Category: Microsoft,Vista — Kamlesh @ 9:37 am

Microsoft is busy marketing its New Vista OS in different ways. Here’s one of them. Are you ready to board into this?

Dec 01 2006

Are you ready for MS New Day

Category: Microsoft,Vista — Kamlesh @ 2:58 pm


Microsoft launches its New Products – Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007.

The MSNewDay website contains information to achieve your Business Value with the Microsoft New Products. Most of the contents are Microsoft Windows Video clips.

Oct 09 2006

Windows Vista RC2 (Build 5744) available for download

Category: Microsoft,Vista — Kamlesh @ 10:23 am

Microsoft released Vista RC2 (Build 5744) for Beta Testing on 06-Oct-2006. This will be the last build made available prior to RTM. This new build of Windows Vista offers users a higher level of performance and stability – improving what was established in Windows Vista RC1. There are thousands of quality improvements since Windows Vista RC1. You’ll probably notice improvements in performance, application compatibility, as well as fit and finish work.

The latest RC2 Build 5744 is available for downloaded from this link.

The last versions posted by Microsoft during September are RC1-Build-5600 and RC1-Build-5728.