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Microsoft’s Notepad has long been a staple of Windows—a humble, fast-loading tool designed for jotting plain text with none of the bells and whistles found in more advanced editors. For decades, its minimalism has been both a blessing and a boundary, endearing it to a dedicated segment of users...

In Windows 10, and now Windows 11 Home, I use MS Notepad (.txt files) all the time for notes and simple letters. Along with Google Keep, for short temporary notes, very handy for copying tips off the Internet. But occasionally I want to create a .doc file, or to play around with some data to...

Note taking with text editors is the best way I've ever used. The real note taking software keep files locally which is risky for data loss when the operating fails or when the notebook is stolen. Word processors are too clunky and risky of data loss when crashed. Mozilla Composer is the fast...

I cannot save notepad to desktop. Solved - I did not enter a new name in the field which had *txt

A little publicized but very important feature of the 1903 update is the new file explorer search engine. I mean the one that searches not only names, but file contents. The new one is very fast, (the old one was incredibly slow) and supports 'quotation mark' searches, which return the files...

Hello. I have several hundred text files in a folder. I would like to replace the text "Hello" present in every files with the actual "filename". How to do that? Can I use a Script or PowerShell? Thank you!

I would like to know is it possible to make a cmd program in #C to monitor windows processes? CMD Starts and automatically sends tasklist command every 10 seconds. If new process starts during that 10 seconds it opens TXT or another CMD windows to inform me that process name and location...

Good Day, I have a flash drive attached to my Netgear router. Recently (and only recently) I get a 'Can't verify the creator of this file ... " warning box if I try to open a file with at .TXT extension via Total Commander or Windows Explorer on the Network drive (no problem with other...

So I guess this is probably not the right place for this, but frankly I don't know where to look! I'm trying to get a list of folder contents (preferably including sub folders), so literally just the file names, exported as a text file or csv, or something that I can manipulate the data with...

I was working with Visual Studio, learning to work with .asp and .html, when I noticed that it was giving me weird font errors. I was reading a .txt file and out putting it to a text box. It would change some characters to a diamond ? looking thing. At first I thought it was something strange in...

*Updated Link to Update 3 of the Debug tool* - 10/29/2020 This is a guide to on how to capture information that will allow us to better help you solve your "Application Crash" problems. In order to get the needed information for analysis you will need to download the Debug Diagnostic...

Hi , Can anyone advise on this. I was running a command as below using cmd batch file typeperf "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" >> Memory.txt However, I could not display the output to the text file and it shows error : Error: No valid counters. Please kindly advice. Regards Wang

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to capture live changes of a standard text file without closing the document and re-opening it using a 3rd party program etc. I am trying to capture output from an executable (that's not mine), but I know that it outputs to a standard text file that I am...

I'm having weird problems with a small SSD drive, F: (120GB). C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk f: The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Server management shows F: drive as healthy status, yet I was unable to create a text file in that drive in...

Hello guys and Windows guru's! Yesterday after the computer restarts,the text file is turned into binary. I don't even know why! In the header of this file there is a word - Compattelrunner.exe. It is possible to restore the original txt file? Please help me people.

in File Explorer in a separate folder: create 22 folders and 23 txt files name each txt file with a single valid non-alphanumeric ascii character !#$%&(),.'-;@[]^_`{}~+= name each folder with a single valid non-alphanumeric ascii character '-!#$%&(),;@[]^_`{}~+= . is not valid for folders I...

Hi, I have already learnt to use (dir /b >direct.txt) in CMD prompt to copy all the file names in a folder to a txt file but was wondering if i'st possible to also get all the file details such as Year, Genre, Writer, Director, Contributing Artist & Comments etc. Regards Wyldbear

Hello I have a travel pics folder and want to put a word file so it appears at the top of the listings is it possible? Whenever I try the folder ends up embedded in the middle of the photos l;isting Thanks in advance

Hi friends, We have an application need to convert a file(txt) from the application into a pdf file. We have a batch file scheduled every night that generates this txt file from the application. In the batch file, we will be passing this txt file as input and also provide output file name...

Hi all: I have the strangest problem. If I double click a .txt file, it opens a Command Prompt window rather than the .txt file! If I use right click, open with, choose default program, the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is grayed out. If I select...