Notepad in Windows 98 and Windows ME don't know the usual accelerator key shortcuts.
How to improve:
Open notepad.exe in Resource Hacker and edit Menu-1 and Accelerators-1.
Here you see my modified NotePad.exe for the German Windows ME Editor.
1 MENU
LANGUAGE LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN
{
POPUP "&Datei"
{
MENUITEM "&Neu\tStrg+N", 9
MENUITEM "Ö&ffnen...\tStrg+O", 10
MENUITEM "&Speichern\tStrg+S", 1
MENUITEM "Speichern &unter...\tF12", 2
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "Seite ein&richten...", 32
MENUITEM "&Drucken\tStrg+P", 14
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "B&eenden\tAlt+F4", 28
}
POPUP "&Bearbeiten"
{
MENUITEM "&Rückgängig\tStrg+Z", 25
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Ausschneiden\tStrg+X", 768, GRAYED
MENUITEM "&Kopieren\tStrg+C", 769, GRAYED
MENUITEM "&Einfügen\tStrg+V", 770, GRAYED
MENUITEM "&Löschen\tEntf", 771, GRAYED
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "Alles &markieren\tStrg+A", 7
MENUITEM "Uhrzeit/&Datum\tF5", 12
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Zeilenumbruch", 27
MENUITEM "&Schriftart...", 37
}
POPUP "&Suchen"
{
MENUITEM "&Suchen...\tStrg+F", 3
MENUITEM "&Weitersuchen\tF3", 8
}
POPUP "&?"
{
MENUITEM "&Hilfethemen", 5
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "Inf&o", 11
}
}
1 ACCELERATORS
LANGUAGE LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN
{
VK_INSERT, 769, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_F1, 5, VIRTKEY
VK_F3, 8, VIRTKEY
VK_F5, 12, VIRTKEY
VK_BACK, 25, ALT, VIRTKEY
"^Z", 25
"^X", 768
"^C", 769
"^V", 770
"^A", 7
"^F", 3
"^N", 9
"^O", 10
"^S", 1
"^P", 14
VK_F12, 2, VIRTKEY
}
2 ACCELERATORS
LANGUAGE LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN
{
VK_INSERT, 769, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_F1, 5, VIRTKEY
VK_F3, 8, VIRTKEY
VK_F5, 12, VIRTKEY
VK_BACK, 25, ALT, VIRTKEY
"^Z", 25
"^X", 768
"^C", 769
"^V", 770
VK_ESCAPE, 28, VIRTKEY
VK_C, 28, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_D, 28, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
VK_Z, 28, CONTROL, VIRTKEY
"^A", 7
"^F", 3
"^N", 9
"^O", 10
"^S", 1
"^P", 14
VK_F12, 2, VIRTKEY
}
Don't forget to compile every script change and then save the EXE File.