Notepad++ not syntax highlighting my files

Question

Until a week ago I was happily coding html.erb files in Notepad++ with syntax highlighting. Then my hard drive crashed.

I reinstalled Notepad++ on my new system but when

Answer 1

So I Know this problem was solved 7 years ago but it's the top result on google so I wanted to add what the solution to my problem.

Under Settings -> Preferences... -> Languages

I had stupidly disabled python without realizing that that's what I was doing, just had to put it back into available items.