Love that newer version has infinite UNDO control Z and REDO control Y. Old version had one undo and your second control Z restored the UNDO. Also like CONTROL H find and Replace, and control G jump to line #.
Here is more depth to the notepad tab saving thingy: So when you have these unsaved "tabs" they actually encode into binary, which you can use some command prompt commands (with some other tools) to de-encode it. Opening a tab causes a new, randomised tab followed by a .bin extension. The same thing happens when you close that tab but it will delete. These binary files are accessible by opening Run and pasting this in it: %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState
YES! Notepad has been my go-to since....198?? (when it was Multi-Tool Notepad). To this day I use Notepad daily for everything from lists to descriptions to addresses and more. Spell check/auto-correct was a total game changer. Most of these wonderful discoveries I use although the .LOG is a new fun awareness, thanks to your content. Simple, easy to use, perfect for copy paste to easily get rid of certain formatting and so much more. This is my favorite content for the day!
I like having a bit more with Vim, but I hardly use most of its functionality, but still a few tasks are a bit easier with what knowledge I know of using vim.
i've had Windows 1.0 run on a 512Kb RAM/ 40Mb HDD/ 10MHz 286 CPU back in the 80s. It didn't have enough resources for Windows 3.0, though 😅. If there was a 2.0 version, i've missed it.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj I started with an Apple ][+ in '82 and went to DOS 6.2(2) (IIRC) with an original IBM AT (which I still have), then in '93 migrated a law firm from Novell (sorry Novell) to NT Advanced Server 3.1 (early adopter, GUI from Monochrome Cards, not much support - MANY NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS). The rest is history. I retired in 2015 after refusing to support any Windows after Win7. I enjoy Linux Mint now.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj lol, my brain completely ignored that you wrote "windows 1.0" and not windows 10, and upon reading rest of the sentence i was like wtf !? 😂 😆
@milosstojanovic4623 Yes, it would have been very challenging to put Windows 10 running on that machine, with fewer resources than a present wrist clock. 😋
@@ados8064 Such modularity isn't that bad of a design choice it seems to me? If you didn't need such things you'd be happy they weren't included I guess. Personally I really dislike it when software gets bloated with features I don't want or need.
@@gloriascientiae7435 lol it's a feature that is in classic Notepad and modern Notepad. Many people use that feature for time stamping as Joe showed 'as a cool feature' in the video.
Good to know ! 0:13 - Log Mode 0:47 - Timestamps Shortcut 1:03 - Header / Footer Print Codes And about that: 4:31 - Getting Classic Notepad Good ! I just removed it now, useless for me I thought there is just one Notepad
The "/.setup" argument was used in the OOBE (as someone told me) and in Windows XP it wouldn't ket you interact with it, but hovering any window over it would erase a part of the notepad window.
This indicates that the window was only drawn once to the desktop canvas, without any handling of the redraw messages. (Could result from it just running once, and then basically crash/hang within the WndProc.) I believe it was when Windows switched to using DirectX as the default (as opposed to the old GDI) when this changed, probably because now internally every "window" is essentially an individual texture that isn't just overdrawn by other overlaying textures anymore, and will persist through something shown atop of it temporarily.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not an easter egg. It's merely an UI animation that gives feedback to the user that the button has been clicked. You don't have to click-and-drag, normal clicking it also makes it turn. You can see this behaviour in other apps and websites too, it's not just a Windows Notepad thing.
Custom header and footer information can't be saved between sessions with Notepad alone. However, you can make changes to the default header and footer in the Windows Registry.
The command line switch for /.setup probably allows for text or file to be opened. I presume they just sideload notepad inside one of their setup programs like they do with edge/explorer.
The new version of Notepad is a Windows 11 only thing and not available for Windows 10. I'm surprised you didn't mention that since there are still far more Windows 10 users than Windows 11 users.
Pretty sure win 10 users can get it from the microsoft store. Also, I wouldn't say "far more". There's a deadline of next October for Windows 10 support, and many companies and personal users have already made the switch
@@ThisGuyDakota Windows 10 still has more than 60% of the market. Windows 11 is 20 something percent. I would say more than double is far more. A majority of Windows 11 installs are probably new PCs, which came with Windows 11. There's speculation Microsoft might end up extending that deadline because Windows 10 is still such a large share of the OS market compared to Windows 11. Larger corporations are also usually slow to change, because of what's involved to move everything to a new version and also because newer OS versions are not as battle tested and more likely to lead to downtime issues.
@wildbill4496 Fair, though I would still probably say "more" rather than "far more". I understand the implications of upgrading OSes, however, I highly doubt that that extension will be carried out. Microsoft already has plans to offer paid extensions to those kinds of clients. Another thing worth noting is that it isn't like moving from Windows 7 to 10. Windows 11 has all the same stuff under the hood, and is mainly a re-skin of Windows 10, making compatability pretty easy. When Windows 11 had it's original ISO leaked, people were able to get it booted by substituting Windows 10 files. Lastly, I'm aware of how fast the upgrades are occurring for companies. Up until July I was working for an MSP that was rolling them out to all their clients. Now I work for a vendor that builds a tool for MSPs, so I know there are a LOT of computers getting migrated as we speak
@@ThisGuyDakota Part of the problem is the Windows 11 re-skin, as you call it, is terrible and was clearly designed with the idea of using it to sell more Surface tablets, because it looks designed for tablets. IMO the start menu has gotten worse, and less user friendly, with every version of Windows after Windows 7. Even on Windows 10 I'm using a program to give me the older style start menu, which was more user friendly. It's also my understanding they took away a number of customizability features or made them harder to use. Essentially it sounds like Windows 11 is a step backwards in many respects, which is why so many have not wanted to move to it. You also have the problem with the hardware requirements, which means you can't install it on many PCs that are still perfectly usable and actually have the horsepower to run it. Windows 11 is essentially either Vista 2.0 or an unnecessary minor upgrade, in terms of how most people view it. Hopefully Microsoft does better with Windows 12, including getting rid of the tablet GUI.
@wildbill4496 well, I'll have to agree to disagree on your personal opinions and any resemblance of a tablet os. In any case, a lot of the customization options were initially missing, but have returned since then. And for the hardware requirements, sometimes security forces us into uncomfortable positions. For example, MFA is another largely hated, yet understood, security for people. Unfortunately, like it or not, Windows 10 is leaving and I doubt Windows 12 will do any pulling back either. It's not Microsoft's way to move backward. They'll just fix what needs fixing or redesign UI elements that get overwhelming criticism.
I despise the new auto-save feature. Notepad was the one app that you could temporarily write sensitive info, then close without saving knowing it was never committed to disk.
All the new Notepad updates alongside VS Code have had me drop Notepad++. Autocorrect and sessions are the two killer features I needed to drop Notepad++ personally.
My notepad has options to show hidden character and can even add hidden character to make it write right to left. Another thing that you can do in notepad and maybe other app is Type in a hexcode for a special character not on the keyboard and then press Alt+X this will convert the hex to ascii or use it to convert an emjio to HEX
The setup mode is handy for any PC in public use, you can have a message that constantly displays on the desktop as the last thing you see before you log out that can't be minimized.
Notepad can open up utf16 ("unicode") files with no encoding signature or BOM (byte order mark). Sometimes Windows makes those type of files. It's nice for saving a powershell 5.1 script as utf8 with BOM, which if it has special characters won't work right.
My favourite additions are the shortcut Ctrl-S to save, and the ability to highlight or move using Ctrl-Arrow in the same way as any other text editor.
The Notepad included in Windows versions up through 3.0 had a handy character count in the About menu, effectively telling you how many bytes it would use, even before saving! Furthermore, NT4's Notepad could create and remove Alternative Data Streams, which leads to a deeper discussion outside the scope of the vid. Unfortunately the old versions were limited to 16k (later 64k in Win9x, and ultimately unlimited in NT), but they can be quite handy to have around.
As a OLD person that saw my first computer in 1976, I, by now, have probably forget more then you will know for a while. I was a Network Engineer got 45 years as well. But, you do a fine job!
I often use it when I paste a copy and it's in an unusual font or something the destination can't cope with. Paste to Notepad, copy, paste again to destination reliably reduces it to plain text. Peobably other ways, but works for me (I keep forgetting Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text.)
Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text Thanks. That one I didn't know, so I have been using the _"temporary paste to notepad"_ for years. LOL Will try to remember this one.
@@coriscotupi I have a shortcut on my desktop to a file called Keyboard Shortcuts.rtf. Gathered over the years. I have tried to memorise it but hey, I'm over 70. Some I use often: - Wind +Shift + S = Open Screenshot Shift + Arrows = Select text, also add more to already selected text. (Awesome) Wind + L = Lock machine. Wind + Arrows = Snap active window to edges of screen. (Good for eyeballing two windows, one L one R. They size exactly to half the screen each.)
Thank you. I've been using Notepad since... 3.1? XP, at least. I learned a few useful tips. The MOST useful, though, is being able to stop the new Notepad from opening previous files without asking!
Even more Notepad fun. Pull Notepad out of Windows 3.1 and save that exe somewhere on your modern Win system. Get otvdmw and use it to run the old 16-bit version of Notepad. Works good! You can even make a shortcut and run the Win 3.1 version with a double-click. Also works with Clock and Calendar.
Other two problems I see with keeping Notepad sessions are: 1. It often opens multiple tabs for the same file, instead of the original tab; 2. It gets quite annoying to open notepad and see a bunch of tabs of quick check notes that you simply didn't close afterwards.
I’ve been using notepad for a long time: monospaced characters are just so satisfying; the speed the app opens and how you can just start writing; and auto saved tabs I don’t really have to save. but I didn’t know it had the .log (although I did know about the time & date insert, and I also didn’t know you could centre align headers & footers.
Thanks for sharing the tips. Now that Notepad isn't empty on start up a date is really needed to know when you entered it. I both glad and unhappy at the same time that it remembers everything because the data stored is a random mess.
This is probably well known but it was new to me in Windows 11: If you hover the mouse to the left of a line (so that it is a pointer instead of a cursor) and click, it will select the entire line.
I suppose an extra thing is that it can be used to open read and edit plaintext metadata. Example being the metadeta files used on plasma cutter nesting software. Doing this allows you to inject your own strings into it like a part location or read info like the dimensions and weights from the file enmasse with a basic script. Prob obvious to many here but maybe not all.
I have to smile because that ability to change the encoding in a Notepad save file was vital in getting a SCADA system I was converting to actually work - the SCADA software in the donor system had it's own custom encoding and that meant that *no* data importing or exporting was possible ... *until* I recalled Notepads trick and could use it to recode the data into a form the host system could use :D
haven't tried but hypothetically you could probably echo commands in powershell or in the command prompt for a notepad text file so when it opens up it would be pre-formatted with said contents and probably pipe a string of commands with it for logging purposes.
According to a blog post I read, Escape or Ctrl+D will close the /.setup window. Also, you'd provide a filename with that option. That let's CLI scripts display a text file in it's own window, uneditably.
What I find particularly interesting is that some Microsoft programmer apparently hated hitting F5 so much he went out of his way to write in that .LOG function.
In old notepad, if you type and the text goes on forever rather than wrap around like "word" does Then just select all your long sentances and in Format, do Word Wrap Also .txt files can be turned into .bat files which automate tasks
Thank you for this. As it was, I always ended up with a gazillion tabs in Notepad. I wished I could go back to the old Notepad. You gave the answer. Thanks!
Oh that command line to open a file in unicode is nice. I wanted to have this incorporated into the right click context menu for new text file. I'll see if I can edit the registry to incorporate it. As creating txt in the default utf8 is in some cases problematic
I must admit that since the Stored session feature was introduced, I've relied on it probably a little bit waaay too much. Like whenever I need to jot someting down, during a meeting or so, I just open a new tab in my one and only notepad session and I never save the files. Tens or even hundreds of tabs of important information there. If the session gets deleted for any reason, I am sooo screwed
The .Setup is used in conjunction with the pipe commands to use through the command window. This was very useful when you needed to make batch files for example.
/.SETUP is for installers to display instructions or other information during installation and is intended to not be interactive. The installer is supposed to terminate it when done or in most cases it self terminates during a reboot initiated by the installer.
Ok. Nice video. Now, I didn’t take notes so to remember all the commands you showed, besides watching it over and taking notes is there a place where they are already written down?
I haven't used Notepad in decades because I haven't used Windows in just as long. It did its job as a text editor, but its lack of features and Microsoft's lack of interest in maintaining, updating, improving it at the time sent me looking for alternatives. My last few years in Windows, Metapad was my preferred editor. I also used TED Notepad.
