Finally, Microsoft’s free PowerToys earns a spot on every PC I buy and use. Available freely from the Microsoft Store and ...

Plummer has spent recent months telling Microsoft what they do not want to hear about Windows 11. He argued the OS needs its own Windows XP SP2 moment, a stretch where Microsoft drops new features and ...

If you are experiencing high CPU and Memory usage issues with Notepad in Windows 11, here is what you can do to fix them. Why is Notepad showing high CPU and Memory usage? If Notepad is showing high ...

Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards. The Copilot button is reportedly missing from the latest Windows Insider build of Notepad. However, the ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is having a tough time leaving Windows Notepad well enough alone. The classic text editor is effectively gone, replaced by a "new" version that keeps accumulating a growing ...

Microsoft patches CVE-2026-20841, a high-severity Windows Notepad flaw that could allow code execution via malicious Markdown files. Image: Microsoft. Notepad has long been Windows’ quiet utility ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad last year, the company has been shoving all kinds of new features into its once-minimal Notepad app, hoping to turn it into some kind of AI-laden WordPad successor.

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Among the many security fixes released by Microsoft on February 2026 Patch Tuesday is one for CVE-2026-20841, a command injection vulnerability in Notepad that could be exploited by attackers to ...

At the risk of going into old-man-yells-at-cloud mode, I remember when Notepad was the most basic text editor around. Some coders and writers liked the program—which comes included in every single ...

Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2026-20841 (8.8), the ...