Notepad on Windows 11 is no longer the lightweight utility it once was. Learn how to replace Notepad with Microsoft Edit on Windows 11.

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The popular Notepad alternative was hijacked by bad actors for several months in 2025, but the latest update appears to solve the issue.

The new crop of default Windows apps is too resource-hungry and inefficient — ditch them for these lightweight alternatives ...

The developer did not specify when they became aware of the attack, but said that “all attacker access was definitively ...

The Windows 11 ecosystem keeps moving forward, and this time, Microsoft is turning its attention to two long-standing ...

Notepad and Paint for Windows 11 are getting yet more updates, but Microsoft should really be focusing on other in-box ...

Paint is receiving one of the more eye-catching upgrades. A new feature called ‘colouring book’ allows users to generate ...

Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs ...

Microsoft upgrades Paint and Notepad with AI-powered creation tools, enabling colouring books, smarter editing, and faster ...

In its pursuit of making AI accessible to everyone, Microsoft has been integrating Copilot across the Windows 11 experience, ...

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 ...