I double clicked on Spanish.msi after downloading it, selected UltraEdit Directory (UEStudio Directory and Custom were the additional options) and the installer has automatically found out that I have 32-bit UltraEdit installed in non standard directory C:\Programs\UltraEd and installed the data files to C:\Programs\UltraEd\GNU\aspell\data and the dictionary files to C:\Programs\UltraEd\GNU\aspell\dict. Then I started UltraEdit, opened Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Spell checker - Dictionary and selected the dictionary es in the list. That's it.

I suppose that you have installed 64-bit UltraEdit and the installers of the dictionaries were not updated to support also 64-bit UltraEdit (uedit64.exe registered in Windows registry instead of uedit32.exe) until now.

In your case the directory C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\GNU\aspell\data should contain the file es.dat. And the directory C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\GNU\aspell\dict should contain the files es.multi, es.rws, espaol.alias, esponol.alias and spanish.alias.

I suggest to open Windows Control Panel - Programs and Features, select in list Spanish Dictionary and Uninstall it. Then install the dictionary once again using again Custom and Browse to the directory containing uedit64.exe during the installation. This worked for me too.

Reason for wrong dictionary installation and workarounds

On double clicking on Spanish.msi (MSI = Microsoft Installer) msiexec.exe is started and opens the file Spanish.msi. The Microsoft Installer detects that the MSI file is designed for a 32-bit installation. This results in activating the Windows File System Redirector which redirects access to C:\Program Files to C:\Program Files (x86) even when the user explicitly browses to a subfolder in C:\Program Files. See also WOW64 Implementation Details and Registry Keys Affected by WOW64 for details on how Windows x64 handles x86 applications regarding environment variables, file system and registry accesses.

I think, the Microsoft Installer does not make a good job in this case on user explicitly browsing or entering C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\ and next modifying this path to C:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\ on closing the browse to folder dialog. I could see this wrong behavior too.

One workaround I have found was using the short path for the program files folder. For this workaround it is necessary to first open a command prompt window and run the command dir C:\Progra* /AD /X to get displayed all program files folders on drive C: with their short names. On my 64-bit Windows the short name of C:\Program Files is C:\PROGRA~1 and the short name for C:\Program Files (x86) is C:\PROGRA~2. So during Custom installation of Spanish.msi I browsed to folder C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\, but I modified Folder name to C:\Progra~1\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\ before closing the browse for folder dialog with a click on button OK. That tricks the file system redirector and the dictionary files are installed into the GNU\aspell subdirectory of 64-bit UltraEdit program files directory.

Another, more difficult workaround is what you have done now. The dictionary files are installed with using Custom option to C:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\ although having selected folder C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\. Then open in Windows Explorer started as administrator the folder C:\Program Files (x86), select folder IDM Computer Solutions containing only the subfolders UltraEdit\GNU\aspell with the installed dictionary files, cut that folder with Ctrl+X, navigate to C:\Program Files and paste there the folder with Ctrl+V. For completeness it would be also good to run regedit as administrator, open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft, search for all occurrences of C:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit and modify each found occurrence (value name or string data) to C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit. That registry modification is not really necessary, but results in a correct uninstall of the installed dictionary when this is ever done in future via Control Panel - Programs and Features.

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Using spell checking on typing on syntax highlighted files

After having enabled at Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Spell checker - Miscellaneous the setting Enable spell as you type and configured the other settings in this dialog, the spell checking on typing is enabled for non syntax highlighted files, i.e. plain text files.

For syntax highlighted files containing code which should be ignored by the spell checker, some additional settings are necessary. For HTML files it is recommended to navigate in configuration to Spell check - Filters, enable Use filters and select HTML or Automatic detection. The options at Spell check - Ignore options might be also set according to spell checking requirements.

Additionally it is necessary for spell checking syntax highlighted files on typing to explicitly enable that feature in the used syntax highlighting wordfile(s). So open Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Editor Display - Syntax highlighting. Select the installed wordfile HTML if not already selected because active opened file is already highlighted with this wordfile, and click on button Open. Other wordfiles could be also opened now like the wordfile for PHP. Then close the configuration dialog with Cancel (or OK if some configurations were modified before). In the opened wordfile(s) insert in first line left to File Extensions = the case-sensitive keyword EnableSpellasYouType, save and close the wordfile(s).

This enables spell checking on typing for files syntax highlighted with the modified wordfile(s).

Yes, EnableSpellasYouType is added at right position in the wordfile html.uew.

Do you have opened the wordfile via the syntax highlighting configuration dialog to open the right wordfile?

html.uew in C:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit\wordfiles would be the wrong wordfile. The right wordfile with default configuration would be in %APPDATA%\IDMComp\UltraEdit\wordfiles as opened via the syntax highlighting configuration dialog.

Or do you have an additional *.uew file in the wordfiles directory used by UltraEdit which is responsible for highlighting HTML files?

I hope the answer on this question is no because that would cause not really working syntax highlighting of HTML files.

Or do you have a project opened with a project specific wordfile configured in the project settings?

In this case it would be necessary to edit the project specific wordfile.

I tested the spell checking on typing on a *.html file opened in 32-bit UltraEdit v24.20.0.44 with my preferred installation location and later also with 64-bit UltraEdit v24.20.0.44 with default installation location as on your computer (extra installed) with English, German and Spanish dictionaries installed and also used one of the other in both UltraEdit on the opened HTML file. Enabled spell checking as you type worked in all 6 test cases as expected. The filter was enabled with HTML selected.

Starting with UltraEdit v25.00 and UEStudio v18.00 the spell checking is done on Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10/11 using the Windows Spell Checking API instead of Aspell which is used further only on Windows 7.

Microsoft wrote the support articles Language packs and Language packs are available for Windows 8 and for Windows RT with the instructions on how to install additional language packs.

I don't have any computer running Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 at the moment. So I cannot help with even more detailed instructions on how to use spell checking in UltraEdit v25.00 on Windows 8 and later Windows versions with multiple languages.

Sorry, I cannot help further as I am using Windows 7 and still Windows XP. Please contact IDM support by email and ask for help on this issue.

It would be good to post here additional information for other users of UltraEdit v25.00 once having solved the issue with help of IDM support.

There is no support anymore for spell checking with Aspell since UltraEdit for Windows v28.10 which means no spell checking support anymore on using such an UltraEdit version on Windows 7. The installation of the Aspell English dictionaries with "English.msi" is useless for that reason with UltraEdit v30.2.0.41 64-bit. The Aspell dictionaries should be uninstalled as not used anymore. There is used since UE v28.10 on Windows the Windows spell checking API. There must be installed the suitable Windows language pack for usage of the spell check feature in UltraEdit on Windows 8/8.1/10/11.

I use English UltraEdit v30.2.0.41 64-bit on an English 64-bit Windows 11 and installed additionally the Windows German language pack to have the option using the dictionaries de-AT, de-CH, de-DE, de-LI, de-LU in addition to en-CA, en-LR, en-PH, en-US and my personal dictionary.