The workaround here is pretty simple, thanks to Microsoft. They have now made apps like Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint Optional features on Windows. This means they can be uninstalled and reinstalled ...

but you’d need access to an older version of Windows where WordPad still existed.) Traditionally, Notepad has been the Windows answer to a light text editor that coders can use or write in ...

Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' app that's in the works now.

Weight Writing App . Notepad is by far the most lightweight text editor you can find. It's also quite versatile, as it can ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

Following the deprecation of WordPad, Microsoft has been adding a lot of features to Notepad, which has led to criticism from ...

Neither did Microsoft explain why WordPad is going away. But the company did advise people to turn to Microsoft Word to view rich text documents such as .DOC and .RTF files and to Notepad to read ...

But now WordPad has gone the way of Clippy, Notepad is the only game in town on a fresh Windows installation. And Microsoft has actually been making it better and better in recent years.

The Notepad improvements come as Microsoft prepares to stop shipping WordPad with Windows 11. WordPad was previously Windows' preinstalled basic word processor, but it has seen few (if any ...

Notepad is getting light text formatting abilities in testing, in yet another move to extend the feature set of the app which ...

About a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was retiring Notepad's word processing counterpart, WordPad. Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years.