You might want to open two files in two separate windows to compare them. Also, if you want to edit two files simultaneously, you need to open them separately. That is why you can change Notepad ...

Windows Notepad has always had a problem displaying line breaks from non-Microsoft operating systems. It is now being updated to be able to handle the end of line characters used in Unix, Linux, and ...

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...

Want to stop Notepad from opening previously opened files? If you want to start over each time you launch Notepad anew, you can turn off the setting that makes Notepad restore previously opened files ...

You are probably aware that Internet Explorer (version 5x) remembers your passwords on certain Web sites. If you would like to disable this feature-called password ...

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?<BR><BR>I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

WE ALL HAVE to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a way to ...

A nagging issue in a staple feature of Microsoft's Windows operating system has finally been fixed. Notepad, the plain text editor that has shipped with every version of Microsoft's desktop operating ...