Dave Plummer’s TinyRetroPad revives classic Notepad simplicity, stripping away AI, telemetry, and unnecessary modern clutter ...

Notepad has always been one of Windows’ most honest tools. Open it, type, save, close. No drama. But in 2025, even this tiny pocket of simplicity isn’t safe from the AI wave sweeping through Microsoft ...

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter. Until now, users who needed a quick way to count characters in ...

The new feature arrives in the latest Canary channel test build of Windows 11. It adds a character count display to the bottom left corner of the Notepad window. This mimics the behavior of other text ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11's Notepad app is slowly becoming WordPad, after Microsoft ditched the latter, and made up for that (in a fashion) by adding quite a few extra ...