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Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2(www.tomshardware.com)

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Windows will no longer have an integrated basic rich-text-based word app.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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One of my biggest problems with the new notepad is you’ve lost using it as a forgettable scratch space. Anything you put in the new Notepad now gets written to your drive, even if you don’t save the file.

You can’t type or copy/paste anything sensitive into notepad anymore as a temporary space even if you don’t save the file.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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There is a setting to start with a fresh window. But rereading the text kinda concerns me. Starting a new session is when the previous one is discarded?

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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Here’s a great video going down to the hex level for how to extract the cleartext out of unsaved Notepad files using the temp cache files: video

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switchboard_pete@fedia.io
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win + R

copy it into run box

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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Sure, and I do that too, but that a problem: you’re limited to only a single line of text about 200 characters long

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