If it’s not proxy, then as I said in the other post, you might need to run Notepad++ as Administrator to elevate privileges.
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Or this post by one-time regular who showed some screenshots of how to setup the proxy – specifically on an XML Tools question, coincidentally.
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See here for more suggestions (from me) regarding Proxy settings and other write-permission issues that make Plugins Admin not install a plugin. installed firewall and need to set up a proxy – the ?-menu’s Set Updater Proxy command actually sets the proxy for Plugins Admin downloads, as well. If the plugin is really not there, then maybe you are behind an I.T.
(You can also get to the plugins directory from Notepad++ itself using Plugins > Open Plugins Folder…, the last entry showed in my Plugins menu screenshot.) If it’s not there, something apparently did go wrong with the installation. That will also tell us where your Notepad++ is installed, and thus where you should expect to see installed plugins.įor example, if Debug Info shows that notepad++ is installed in c:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe, then you would expect the plugins to be in the c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\ subdirectory and specifically, if it installed correctly, the XMLTools plugin will be in c:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\XMLTools\XMLTools.dll. That will tell us some critical things about your setup, including whether you are on v7.9.5-32 or v7.9.5-64, and what other plugins are correctly installed. You should look at your ?-menu’s Debug Info and copy/paste that data into your reply here. My notepad++ does re-launch, but nothing happen.ĭoes that mean that the XML Tools does not end up as a submenu in plugins menu? You can see it near the end of my menu, here: (The terminology is important, because we still occasionally see people who have just updated from an ancient Notepad++ that still used the Plugin Manager plugin to manage plugins, and were confused with the modern versions that have the built-in Plugins Admin instead.) It’s the Plugins Admin, as clearly indicated in your screenshot. The Plugin Manager isn’t involved with Notepad++ v7.9.5. The application is called Notepad++ – those ++ symbols differentiate it from the Microsoft tool notepad.exe that is bundled with Windows. Said in Unable to Install plugins from plugin Manager in Notepad 7.9.5: Unable to Install plugins from plugin Manager in Notepad 7.9.5