Just out of couriosity - Did you already follow my suggestion to work with virgin settings in you user profile?
It really sounds odd to me that the encoding in the status bar is different every time. I'm afraid you should rather reinstall PSPad again. This time maybe in a directory where you have full writing permissions. PSPad doesn't need to be installed in the program files directory. Steffen -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,69681,69703> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
