Deactivate tabs in Notepad++

Question

Is there a way to disable Notepad++ tabs?

I would like to open each file in a new window. Not necessarily in a new instance but there should be a new tab in the windows task bar as well. Essentially I want Notepad++ mimic MS Notepads behaviour in regards to open multiple files. I'm using Notepad++ in it's portable version, so I would prefer but not limit a possible answer to a solution that works with it.

UPDATE: currently (as of Okt2020) it is not possible to setup multi instances without sacrifice features like autosave which (unfortunately) I require to work properly

Answer 1

You can mimick this by opening each file from outside of Notepad++ using a command with multiInst [command-line parameter][1]:

notepad++.exe C:\myfile.txt -multiInst

and later

notepad++.exe C:\anotherfile.txt -multiInst

etc...

You can put this into a batch file and then use it to open anything in Notepad++.

I am not saying you should attempt to open a file from the inside of Notepad++ (menu File > Open) if you say that based on what you tried this way is unreliable.

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Update after question update:

Use more sophisticated batch file which will clone Notepad++ program directory including all six configuration XML files into a new temp directory.* This way you will have open each file in separate Notepad++. Create a scheduled task which will delete all such temp directories/hardlinks if no Notepad++ is running at the moment (what is a simplified but reliable approach).

*) Use portable version of N++ for this configured for MultiInst. You can use hard links mklink /j with dirs and mklink /h with files to save you from actually copying most of N++ files. This will make the cloning super-fast.