Jan, I'm afraid 5.0 is even buggier than OP suggested. First, there's no such thing as a "System" group in Settings - at least, not in the English version. There's "System integration", but it doesn't offer an option for "Allow Scripts Menu", as you suggest. In fact....
v5.0's Direct Edit of Settings only shows three groups of settings: Config, HTML document, and PHP. The entire list shown is: _[Config]_ FirstRun=1 _[HTML document]_ Compilator ParsLog=line %L column %C _[PHP]_ Compilator File=C:\PHP\php.exe Compilator Param=%File% Compilator Capture=1 Compilator ParsLog=*on line <b>%L This isn't the actual list of Settings; it's just the ones that show up under Direct Edit. The actual list of Settings looks pretty OK, as I click through them. "Allow Scripts Menu" doesn't appear in v4.6.2, either. That essentially leaves v5.0 without any way to run scripts. -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,70234,70614> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com