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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 month ago by shoulderoforion@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And they're making notepad pretty unusable also

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had no real issuses with the new notepad.

I just hope that they don't continue adding too much stuff to it and it becomes the new wordpad and we don't have a basic box to put text anymore.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you've lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don't save the file.

You can't type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don't save the file.

[–] switchboard_pete@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

win + R

copy it into run box

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you're limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a setting to start with a fresh window. But rereading the text kinda concerns me. Starting a new session is when the previous one is discarded?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Here's a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video