And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...

The new notepad looks like this. Notepad on Windows 11 that doesn't participate in the Windows Insider Program looks like this, and at first glance, it doesn't seem to make a big difference.

Windows sets Notepad as the default program for opening text files. Although you can use Notepad to create basic documents that don't require formatting, Wordpad lets you add images, customized ...

Notepad and Paint have been auto-installed by Windows since 1985 (Windows 1.0) and WordPad since 1995 (Windows 95). Windows didn't allow simple user uninstalls of these venerable programs until ...