How to set Wordpad text font by default?

Question

I very much prefer Wordpad Notepad in Windows 7 for quick checking of source files, namely because Notepad does not display most correctly if the file was written in Unix.

However, it saddens me that I cannot choose the default font for plain text.

Is there any way to change it? I guess the registry here, if at all.

Answer 1

Open a new document, set the font and default size and save the file as "Wordpad.wri". Close the text block. Right-click on the saved file and select Properties. On the general tab, check only read, apply your changes and click OK.

Whenever you want to start WordPad, do this by double-clicking on the saved wordpad.wri.

[ src: Tom Porterfield ]

Answer 2

You can also change the shortcut icon, place the Wordpad icon and also change the name of the shortcut to look like Workpad.