Why do all of that when you can get the Notepad++ Launcher from their site: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/commun...auncher.bin.zip Take that EXE and use makecab to compress it to a .ex_, place it in your i386 directory overwriting the original NOTEPAD.EX_ (make sure the Service Packs have been applied first because if you do this first and then the Service Packs, it will overwrite what you have tried to do.) and then use nLite to install the Notepad++ Addon and you are set to go. I have tinkered with that just recently and it works.