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Notepad is a basic text editor included in all versions of Windows since Windows 1.0.

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When I open Notepad on Windows 11, there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI in the top right corner. How do I remove it?
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I don't want notepad to remember my previous session so I changed the "When Notepad starts" setting to "Start new session and discard unsaved changes". Pretty quickly I noticed ...
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I am on Windows 11, and I use Notepad for programming in Python. Whenever I have a notepad open and want to open another .py file (Ctrl+O), I get the following screen: But there are multiple .py ...
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I have a ton of open Notepad windows. In Windows 11, opening Notepad is supposed to continue the previous session and restore all the open Notepad windows. But this screws up occasionally, especially ...
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Using Windows 11 Pro, Version 10.0.26100, all latest updates Personal Computer Issue 1: Even with the New Windows 11 Notepad turned off under App Execution Aliases, it continues to show up everywhere ...
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I am using notepad. I want to remove the word "large" by itself. But if I do a find and replace, it will also replace "large" in apple and banana. How can I do it? large large ...
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I just pressed a hotkey in Notepad that has permanently changed it so that when I use the " key, they are output as curly instead of straight. What did I press? I am not using AHK or any other ...
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Since Windows 11 (or maybe earlier) Windows Notepad internally stores unsaved files so if the application (or Windows) crashes they will be still there later. For example, Notepad++ stores those temp ...
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I have open two instances of notepad.exe on Win11 opening the same text file but differing in input, while still having similarities and common data. Here is an example of what it looks like, as Hannu ...
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In Windows 11 Microsoft introduced a spell checker in Notepad (version 11.2402.18.0). According to some sources e.g. blogs.windows.com or elevenforum.com, it's supposed to be able to handle multiple ...
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(Note that I posted a previous iteration of my question on Stack Overflow.) I am trying to change multiple files from UTF-8 to ANSI in Notepad. My goal is change them to ANSI like my course has ...
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I edited the following batch file in notepad. At the bottom-right corner of notepad, it showed "UTF8". I saved the file in ANSI format. Now, the bottom-right corner of notepad showed "...
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I have a habit of doing the following: win-key notepad whenever I have to jot down a quick note. In previous versions of windows, I would just kill notepad.exe to close all those windows. Now, in ...
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I'm having a challenge editing a sqlnet.ora file in my Oracle network/admin folder with the build in notepad.exe in Windows 11 Whenever I try to save the file, Notepad insists on appending .txt to it. ...
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I am writing integer values into file from kotlin (kotlin Int type) using something like this var1BufferedWriter?.write(String.format("%d\n", intvar ) ) var2BufferedWriter?.write(String....
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