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It looks like, after Microsoft discontinued WordPad, they want to implement more features into Notepad. If you want simple plain text editor you have to use mse

It looks like, after Microsoft discontinued WordPad, they want to implement more features into Notepad. If you want simple plain text editor you have to use msedit[1]. [1]https://github.com/microsoft/edit https://github.com/microsoft/edit

phatfish 7mo ago
You can still open the real notepad, you just have to turn off a "feature" that makes running notepad.exe open the new notepad. Its called "execution alias" or something like that.
- tomNth 7mo ago
  I just use the winxp wordpad.exe. (and calc paint notepad, and I use paint shop pro 4.12)