Sessions in Notepad++ grab the complete state of your workspace. A session file saves the full paths of all open documents, ...

The only problem? There is already a fantastic fully-featured plain-text editor that has been available for years that is ...

PSA: Notepad++ users who haven't yet updated to version 8.8.9 or later should manually download the latest installer as soon as possible. Following reports of malicious activity, a December 2025 ...

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users reported incidents in which the updater retrieved malicious executables instead of ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...

Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI is popping up on the web, in mobile apps, in the Edge browser, and especially in Windows. But just what exactly is it? Here’s everything you need to know. I've been ...

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Windows 11 Notepad just got a major upgrade, and it’s no longer just a plain text editor. Although a light replacement for WordPad, it now supports markdown and cool formatting options. Here, we will ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

Several years ago, I was working on the Programming Windows series that I later turned into the book Windows Everywhere. As I progressed through that history, I started collecting themes, or ideas, ...

Microsoft is rolling out a long-anticipated update to Notepad, and it is one that many users have been hoping for. Starting Friday, Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels of Windows 11 can ...