Title: editing with notepad problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# editing with notepad problem

 *  [airbrusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airbrusher/)
 * (@airbrusher)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-with-notepad-problem/)
 * **What’s up guys-**
 * **QUERY:**
 * When I open and edit the wp-config.sample file with notepad, and rename it wp-
   config.php, I’t doesn’t look like it’s original self, it turned into a notepad
   file but it still says php file… and all the other files in my wordpress folder
   also turned into notepad files, but they still have their original names. How
   do I fix this??
 * THANKS in advance-

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 *  [drmike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmike/)
 * (@drmike)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-with-notepad-problem/#post-549927)
 * It’s how you save it. Get a new copy of the file, edit it, and save it as:
 * Save as type: All Files
    Encoding: UTF-8
 * Hope this helps,
    -drmike
 *  Thread Starter [airbrusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airbrusher/)
 * (@airbrusher)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-with-notepad-problem/#post-549932)
 * Ok I did that but when I downloaded the file on to my computer it automatically
   looks like a notepad file-
 * When I save it as you specified it still doesn’t revert to its original appearence.
   They still look like notepad files!
 *  Thread Starter [airbrusher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/airbrusher/)
 * (@airbrusher)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-with-notepad-problem/#post-549934)
 * Now all the wordpress files look like notepad files!!
    wha the hell is wrong???
   It’s like my computer is set to have php files look like notepad DAM!!

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 * [wp-config.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config-php/)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-with-notepad-problem/#post-549934)
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