I'm having trouble changing my notepad file into an executable, so that it runs whatever it contains. On a side note, is there any basic way of telling notepad to run a program/open a saved file (i.e. run:"file location")? Thank you very much in advance.
What exactly are you referring to? are you trying to create a batch file that opens a specified program?
if this is the case, change the file extension of the notepad file to .bat