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

Dave Plummer rebuilt Notepad in 2.5KB using only what Windows already ships, exposing how bloated Windows 11's own Notepad ...

Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared ...

Text editors, aren’t they just the best, right? We can’t live without them, at least not right now. Therefore, it’s always best to have one at your fingertips at all times. Now, we all know that ...

In brief: Notepad didn't change much in the first few decades following its debut in 1983. However, Microsoft has added several significant features to the cleartext editor in the years since Windows ...

https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,80985-order,4/description.html (free) starts with the basic text editing provided by the Windows Notepad program, and adds ...