Windows 11’s Notepad has been redesigned and expanded with formatting and AI features — but the original, tiny, lightning-fast classic Notepad is still on most systems and can be brought back into daily use with a few safe, reversible steps. This guide explains exactly what changed, why...
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Windows 11’s Notepad has been modernized with formatting and AI features, but the classic, no-frills Notepad is still available — and with a few sensible tweaks you can run it side-by-side with Microsoft’s new Notepad or make it the editor that opens when you type notepad.exe. This article...
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As we continue to close the gap between Win32 and Universal Windows Apps, one of the features we’ve recently introduced is the ability to activate a UWA from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders from build 16226.
This feature builds on...