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I learned to treat the terminal as my writing room: no floating toolbars, no Ribbon, just text, and the muscle memory of a keyboard—this is the core claim a Windows Central writer makes for why they compose everything inside a terminal rather than in Microsoft Word, and it’s an argument that has...

The Notepad app in Windows 11 has received one of its most substantial upgrades in decades, introducing native Markdown support and cementing its relevance for both casual users and developers in the modern workflow. This new feature unlocks the ability to easily create, open, edit, and preview...

Microsoft's Notepad, a staple of the Windows operating system since 1983, has long been cherished for its simplicity and efficiency in handling plain text. However, recent developments indicate a significant transformation as Microsoft introduces formatting capabilities and Markdown support to...

For decades, Notepad has stood as one of Windows’ most enduringly minimal tools—a plain text editor whose appeal lies in its simplicity and speed. Technically unchanged for much of its existence, it has always served reliably to jot down snippets, lists, code, or that quick README file...

Windows Notepad is experiencing a quiet revolution—a phrase rarely uttered about this utilitarian text editor that, for decades, seemed steadfast in its resistance to change. With Microsoft’s latest Insider build, Notepad is getting a suite of basic formatting features—an uncharacteristically...

Microsoft has recently unveiled a significant update to its Notepad application, introducing advanced text formatting capabilities that enhance user experience and productivity. This update, currently available to Windows Insider users in the Canary and Dev Channels of Windows 11, marks a...

Microsoft has announced a significant update to Notepad, introducing text formatting capabilities for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. This enhancement, available in Notepad version 11.2504.50.0, marks a substantial evolution for the application, traditionally known...

Windows 11, Backupper 7.3.2 Pro. Created 7 text files, did an encrypted file backup with BU, then changed file extension .AFI to .TXT, and half of the files were encrypted, half of them were not. 1) Text file.txt created, with 1 word "Kitty". 2) Backupper file backup with encryption enabled...

Hello, In case my computer gets hacked, I want to keep passwords safe into an encrypted file. Since the data I have is free-flow, KeePass won't do since it expects data to be in neat columns (logon, password, etc.) After checking several apps, I came up with the following requirements: 1...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21318 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build will also be offered to ARM64 devices. What’s new in Build 21318 Paste as plain text in clipboard history Simply open clipboard history (WIN +...

Hi All I had a weird behaviour opening a xls. I have on my webserver a repository with some xls (no macro, no formulas etc, just plain text), thoise xls are accessible without loogin to all visitors. I have a web firewall before web. It happen that waf spam alert message as LOIC attack, i...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 13, 2014): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for Microsoft .NET Framework that disables RC4 in Transport Layer Security (TLS) through the modification of the system registry. Use of RC4 in TLS could allow an attacker to...

Not long ago I was experiencing an annoying problem: the file extension for ICO files were always displayed while known filetypes' extensions were set to be hidden. My primary icon editor/handler was (and still is) IconLover, and at one point I my registry explorations, I found the offending...

( Now Solved ) I've set up Outlook 2007 to compose new mails in HTML which works fine when using the New Mail button but when I try to send a file by right-clicking it and choosing Send to Mail Recipient it defaults to plain text and I have to manually select HTML in the Options tab on the...

Fixes an issue in which mail merge in Microsoft Word does not work for plain text or for attached mails on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Hello, Is there an easy way to make Notepad my default editor? Some how Wordpad is default. I read where I could go into the registry and change it there but I am not comfortable with tapering with the registry. With XP, I could change it very easily. As a side note, presently in Windows 7...