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Unicode text file. If a font with support for Chinese was installed, nine Chinese characters (æĄŽç©æ ç°æ æčĄæ æČæĄ) would display. Otherwise, it would display square
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Microsoft Store. Notepad appeared on Microsoft Store for a second time in April 2020, this time, sporting a new logo. It runs on the preview versions of Windows 10,
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Improving performance has been the main focus of
Notepad's development. As part of this effort, Notepad is capable of reading text files even when other apps have acquired a
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415:, shortcuts for common commands like "New", "Open", and "Save" were added, as well as a status bar with a line counter (available only when word-wrap is disabled). Before
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documents. First released in 1983 to commercialize the
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1178:"This Is the New Notepad Icon for Windows 10"
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1735:"The Notepad file encoding problem, redux"
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1045:. IDG. April 25, 1983. p. 40.
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2904:User Interface Privilege Isolation
1148:Parmar, Mayank (August 19, 2019).
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308:spreadsheet. On the suggestion of
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910:. IDG. May 23, 1983. p. 85.
884:. IDG. May 30, 1983. p. 10.
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1733:Chen, Raymond (April 17, 2007).
1364:Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Bible
858:. IDG. May 23, 1983. p. 1.
659:of operating systems (including
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510:Notepad supports the following
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1660:Rusen, Ciprian Adrian (2022).
1201:Warren, Tom (March 21, 2024).
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2638:Remote Installation Services
1846:Microsoft Windows components
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2889:Mandatory Integrity Control
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2440:Wireless Zero Configuration
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335:Change in development model
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2723:Hardware Abstraction Layer
2420:Multimedia Class Scheduler
702:Comparison of text editors
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1361:Wyatt, Allen L. (1996).
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21:Notepad (disambiguation)
3434:Media Control Interface
3268:Help and Support Center
2884:Kernel Patch Protection
2648:System Resource Manager
2628:Remote Desktop Services
2623:Print Services for UNIX
2405:Service Control Manager
2015:Windows Error Reporting
1935:DirectX Diagnostic Tool
1401:Upgrading to Windows 98
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3414:Desktop Cleanup Wizard
2990:COM Structured storage
2691:Desktop Window Manager
2583:Windows Media Services
798:hard alignment (using
3042:Windows Mixed Reality
2713:Enhanced Write Filter
2563:Roaming user profiles
792:mass-editing of lines
700:Further information:
690:substitute characters
617:for larger files. On
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3614:Proprietary software
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3323:Mobile Device Center
3273:Health & Fitness
3071:Solitaire Collection
2899:User Account Control
2894:Protected Media Path
2798:Server Message Block
2748:Logical Disk Manager
2000:System Policy Editor
1985:System Configuration
1636:"Windows 11 Notepad"
1613:. October 24, 2007.
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706:List of text editors
571:input method editors
388:(bearing the ".txt"
345:Microsoft Store apps
269:In May 1983, at the
3469:Virtual DOS machine
2813:System Idle Process
2788:Resource Protection
2696:Portable Executable
2588:Active DRM Services
1990:System File Checker
1960:Performance Monitor
1127:(August 17, 2019).
747:regular expressions
629:, Notepad uses the
512:character encodings
353:preview build 18963
285:-based text editor
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3609:Microsoft software
3594:Windows components
3474:Windows on Windows
3198:Backup and Restore
3010:Transaction Server
2728:I/O request packet
2568:Folder redirection
2237:Speech Recognition
1995:System Information
1950:Management Console
1445:. pp. 94â95.
940:. Wiley. pp.
795:blank line removal
696:Competing software
651:Bush hid the facts
390:filename extension
279:Multi-Tool Notepad
97:Multi-Tool Notepad
57:Original author(s)
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3419:Games for Windows
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2382:Windows Spotlight
2025:Windows Installer
1739:The Old New Thing
1698:"IsTextUnicode()"
1677:978-1-119-85870-6
1540:on April 6, 2005.
1514:on June 28, 2007.
1333:The Old New Thing
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657:Windows NT family
645:Unicode detection
273:computer expo in
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1970:Resource Monitor
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3373:Program Manager
3358:Phone Companion
3348:Outlook Express
3298:Make Compatible
3228:Desktop Gadgets
3188:Anytime Upgrade
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