Notepad++ find and replace does not close in Windows 7

Posted May 19th, 2009 in Applications

I replaced my Beta install of Windows 7 (32bit) with the Release Candidate (64bit) yesterday and discovered that the find and replace dialog in Notepad++ no longer goes away when it's closed by instead stays where it is but is transparent/translucent. There's obviously some minor bug which needs to be fixed but in th emeantime there's an easy fix for this.

Here's an example screenshot showing the find and replace dialog when it's transparent after "closing" it:

And the simple fix is to uncheck the box box labelled "Transparency" before closing it. This is highlighted with a red box in the screenshot below:

Now when you close it the search box will actually disappear and the option will remain unticked when you use it again.