Thankfully, you can still re-enable the old version of Notepad by opening the Settings App (press Windows+i) and navigating to Apps > Advanced App Settings > App Execution Aliases ...

From the context menu, select “Open file location” and you will be whisked away to the super-secret location on your computer where Microsoft has chosen to hide Notepad.

In the latest beta version of Notepad (11.2504.46.0), it is also possible to create new texts from a text prompt. You can then edit the document until you are satisfied.

A prompt to sign in to an MS account upon opening Notepad sent many people into a stir, but they're making mountains out of molehills.

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983.

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

I just upgraded to Windows XP Professional from Windows 98 (I didn't a complete wipe of the hdd and reinstalled everything). In Win 98 I replaced my notepad with metapad (just by changing metapad ...

The latest round of Windows 11 updates has finally delivered Notepad in its finest form, as arguably now the best, most reliable offline word processor around.

Two new features are coming to Windows 11, and Windows Insiders can already take advantage of Copilot integration in Notepad and image annotations with the Snipping Tool.

The freshly updated Notepad app with native Arm64 support is rolling out now to Windows Insiders on Windows 11 Microsoft's Dev, Beta and Release Preview channels.

Microsoft has finally added a much-requested feature to Notepad, with spellcheck and autocorrect now available in Windows 11.