Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature to your PC: AI-powered editing to the Windows 11 Notepad app, called Rewrite. In November, Microsoft began testing the addition of AI rewrite capabilities in ...

A new AI feature is coming to Microsoft’s Notepad called Rewrite. The Verge reports that Microsoft is rolling out a preview of Rewrite to Windows Insiders that will allow AI to rewrite sentences, ...

If you use Notepad frequently, you may have noticed that the Status Bar option under View is always greyed out or disabled. In this post, we will see why and how you can enable Status Bar in Notepad – ...

The basic text editor Notepad comes installed as a native Windows accessory. Although Windows lets you launch the Notepad application through the Start menu or by opening text documents, it does not ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...

Notepad is one of the most basic apps in Windows, but that’s exactly why so many people still love it: it’s a barebones text editor free of distractions. Still, I’ve got to admit it looks a little ...

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 ...

At times, you might not want to use the in-built Notepad app on your Windows computer. If so, you can use the TED Notepad, which is one of the best free Notepad alternatives you can use. Here we have ...