Comments on: The Default View Source Editor Has Changed in Internet Explorer 8

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:38:35 +0000

Thank you so much!! I knew how to open Notepad to change the source code in IE8, but I did not know how to make Notepad the default source viewer once gain. You have saved me a lot of time!

By: Bobi

Bobi — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:13:28 +0000

The ability to edit ‘on the fly’ was the reason I stayed using IE when it seemed most everyone else had gone over to FireFox. Once that edit capability was removed I saw no reason to keep IE as my default browser, but frustation eventually led me to find this Regedit solution – many thanks.

By: Misty

Misty — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:21:44 +0000

Thank you so much! I kept having computer issues at work and at one point lost the viewsource-notepad file that had enabled sources to open in Notepad. Opening in Word, copying into Notepad, then saving was terribly time-consuming and posed various problems. While the IT guy was trying different files, I googled and found this and it worked like a charm!

Thanks again!

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:50:33 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU… THANK YOU… can I say it again?…. I do all my website coding by notepad on my hard drive before loading it to my site.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:55:51 +0000

Thanks for this tip, I was going crazy trying to figure how to edit the source code. This tip also works with Internet explorer 9

By: CSGreen

CSGreen — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:50:44 +0000

I was trying to find the editor used because I liked the code coloring and the line count, but wasnt the ability to edit . . . should have know Microsoft would cripple it just like everything else

By: Bernd

Bernd — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:51:05 +0000

Thanks for this tip! I was desperate because Outlook insisted in using an editor which needed a registratio instead of my preferred HTML editor. I tried that editor once and it seems that I did not pay enough attention where it set itself as the preferred editor …

Note for other users: for some reason does not launch the Developer Tools in my IE8; but it works via the menu: “Tools” – “Developer Tools” and then as described.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:07:44 +0000

awesome! Thanks for this. Really appreciate it,

By: uksbd

uksbd — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:29:55 +0000

Thank you, thank you , thank you
I upgraded to IE8 about 12 months ago, but went back to using 7 for a number of reasons, this beeing one of them.
Upgraded again at weekend, but not having notepad as the default was driving me mad.
After finding this page my sanity has been restored

By: nb

nb — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:31:47 +0000

Great, thanks. This also helps to get rid of a strange error message when trying to view source code in Internet Explorer 8:
German: “NA konnte nicht gefunden werden”
English: “NA could not be found”