Even if you know nothing about coding, there are lots of basic code examples out there that you can cut and paste into Notepad for some PC Magic. There are of course better text editors out there for all you code jockeys, but Notepad is the text editor for everyone (running Windows).Īnyone can use Notepad to play around with code and make programs to personalize the Windows experience (in a very informal and fixable way). Users can create simple programs to personalize the Windows experiences (or just perform a neat little tricks).

Aside from basic text functionality, Notepad is a reliable repository for old-school programming languages like VBScript. But what it lacks in word-processing abilities, it makes up for as a minimalist scratchpad for basic coding. Notepad takes the concept of 'no frills' to the extreme. If Microsoft Word is a '10' as a word processor, Notepad is around a '.000004' (give or take a few zeros). It's an extremely minimalist text editor, and when I say minimalist, I mean minimalist. Microsoft Notepad has been included in every version of Windows going back to Windows 1.0 in 1985.

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