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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

WordPad has been around since Windows 95. It has stood somewhere between Word, its more fully-featured text editor, and the simplicity of Notepad. “WordPad is no longer being updated and will be ...

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 ...

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

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

Limited by lack of major text editing options, Notepad remains useful for unmodified text input like coding. Change likely due to WordPad's discontinuation, users encouraged to try revamped ...

WordPad first shipped as part of Windows 95, but it’s being removed in a future release of Windows. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things ...

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 ...