There are plenty of indie, third-party alternatives to standard Windows apps, many of them much-loved by power users. Take ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver backdoored ...

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today.

Notepad has lately fallen out of favor with a lot of Windows users. I stumbled on a new open-source alternative that you ...

The purpose of this document and method is to show you how you can easily create a dual- or multi-boot Windows/Linux USB pendrive so that you can run the Windows 11 installer and one or more Linux ...

Microsoft Paint has been energised with AI tools and the company is now letting you make books just with basic prompts.

Converts 4K Dolby Vision MKV files to MP4 format while preserving DV metadata and extracting subtitles. Designed for Windows users who need MP4 files for proper Dolby Vision playback in Windows Media ...

Once the forgotten child of Windows' armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it's gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state ...

Microsoft tested the “Create a table” feature with Windows Insiders in November 2025, and now it’s available for everyone on Windows 11. If you own a Copilot+ PC, you will also notice that Notepad can ...

Microsoft has moved quickly to modernize one of its oldest apps. After months of testing, the company has officially rolled out table support in Notepad and live AI streaming for Windows 11 users, as ...

Here’s how you may use the Summarize feature in the Windows 11 Notepad app to enhance writing with AI: Open the Notepad app. Paste or type the text you want to summarize. Select the text. Click ...