Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

Auto Detect Indention Mike Tzou (Chocobo1) https://github.com/Chocobo1/nppAutoDetectIndent 2.3 - arm64 bit Detects indention (tab or spaces) and auto adjust Tab key ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

The big picture: Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update this week with 59 hotfixes across Windows, Microsoft Office, Azure, and core system components. The update includes patches for six ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 preview update brings AI text generation and improvement tools to Notepad, similar to chatbot functionality. The update also expands Markdown support ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, Microsoft has been quietly transforming the classic Notepad app into something very different. A redesigned interface, formatting toolbar, Markdown support, AI features ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

Pro adds support for images and links alongside text snippets, custom tags for organization, and a counter for daily task tracking. Hyperlinks: URLs are detected automatically and highlighted. Click ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Notepad has been around for more than 40 years, and throughout that time, Microsoft made simple software free, but that time has now come to an end, or at ...