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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blogger and Microsoft employee Derek Dysart has posted a great tip for automatically dating every new entry in a text file edited with Notepad. Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase) in ...

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 ...