If you remember a few days ago, I mentioned that I was having an issue with Windows Update where it would force me to restart my computer if I didn’t tend to it quickly enough. One of my readers gave me a solution to my problem, so I decided to share another small issue I’ve been having in case one of you has a solution to this one as well.

If you’re not aware already, I use Notepad++ for all my text editing needs. I’m using Notepad++ right now to write this blog post, and I use NppFTP to automatically update all my edits onto my website.

There’s a spell checker integrated with Notepad++ called Aspell. The plug-in is preinstalled, but you have to install the actual Aspell program and dictionary for it to work. I already went to the website and downloaded Aspell and installed it, and added the .dll library file and dictionary file to the installation directory.

But, when I go to use Aspell in Notepad++, it says it can’t find the .dll file and tells me to insert a relative path to the .dll file. I typed in ..\Aspell\bin because that’s where the .dll file is stored, but it still can’t manage to find it.

I’ve pretty much tried every possible thing that anyone could come up with, such as using absolute paths, copying the .dll file into the local folders, moving files from the 32-bit Program Files folder to the 64-bit Program Files folder and vice versa, and reinstalling all corresponding programs.

If you have had this problem before and found a solution to it, then please share it with me because it’s very inconvenient not having spell check in my main text editor and having to copy and paste everything into Microsoft Word to make sure I didn’t make any typos. If you don’t know what’s wrong, please don’t send me suggestions like “did u try re install teh program” because I’m surprisingly not that stupid.

If you help me solve this problem, I will give you a shout-out and appreciate your existence on this planet for as long as I inhabit it.

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Topic #179: If you could own one thing you don’t currently have, what would it be?

Well that’s easy.

A billion dollars.