Love that newer version has infinite UNDO control Z and REDO control Y. Old version had one undo and your second control Z restored the UNDO. Also like CONTROL H find and Replace, and control G jump to line #.
Here is more depth to the notepad tab saving thingy: So when you have these unsaved "tabs" they actually encode into binary, which you can use some command prompt commands (with some other tools) to de-encode it. Opening a tab causes a new, randomised tab followed by a .bin extension. The same thing happens when you close that tab but it will delete. These binary files are accessible by opening Run and pasting this in it: %localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState
YES! Notepad has been my go-to since....198?? (when it was Multi-Tool Notepad). To this day I use Notepad daily for everything from lists to descriptions to addresses and more. Spell check/auto-correct was a total game changer. Most of these wonderful discoveries I use although the .LOG is a new fun awareness, thanks to your content. Simple, easy to use, perfect for copy paste to easily get rid of certain formatting and so much more. This is my favorite content for the day!
I like having a bit more with Vim, but I hardly use most of its functionality, but still a few tasks are a bit easier with what knowledge I know of using vim.
i've had Windows 1.0 run on a 512Kb RAM/ 40Mb HDD/ 10MHz 286 CPU back in the 80s. It didn't have enough resources for Windows 3.0, though 😅. If there was a 2.0 version, i've missed it.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj I started with an Apple ][+ in '82 and went to DOS 6.2(2) (IIRC) with an original IBM AT (which I still have), then in '93 migrated a law firm from Novell (sorry Novell) to NT Advanced Server 3.1 (early adopter, GUI from Monochrome Cards, not much support - MANY NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS). The rest is history. I retired in 2015 after refusing to support any Windows after Win7. I enjoy Linux Mint now.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj lol, my brain completely ignored that you wrote "windows 1.0" and not windows 10, and upon reading rest of the sentence i was like wtf !? 😂 😆
@milosstojanovic4623 Yes, it would have been very challenging to put Windows 10 running on that machine, with fewer resources than a present wrist clock. 😋
@@ados8064 Such modularity isn't that bad of a design choice it seems to me? If you didn't need such things you'd be happy they weren't included I guess. Personally I really dislike it when software gets bloated with features I don't want or need.
@@gloriascientiae7435 lol it's a feature that is in classic Notepad and modern Notepad. Many people use that feature for time stamping as Joe showed 'as a cool feature' in the video.
Good to know ! 0:13 - Log Mode 0:47 - Timestamps Shortcut 1:03 - Header / Footer Print Codes And about that: 4:31 - Getting Classic Notepad Good ! I just removed it now, useless for me I thought there is just one Notepad
The "/.setup" argument was used in the OOBE (as someone told me) and in Windows XP it wouldn't ket you interact with it, but hovering any window over it would erase a part of the notepad window.
This indicates that the window was only drawn once to the desktop canvas, without any handling of the redraw messages. (Could result from it just running once, and then basically crash/hang within the WndProc.) I believe it was when Windows switched to using DirectX as the default (as opposed to the old GDI) when this changed, probably because now internally every "window" is essentially an individual texture that isn't just overdrawn by other overlaying textures anymore, and will persist through something shown atop of it temporarily.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not an easter egg. It's merely an UI animation that gives feedback to the user that the button has been clicked. You don't have to click-and-drag, normal clicking it also makes it turn. You can see this behaviour in other apps and websites too, it's not just a Windows Notepad thing.
Custom header and footer information can't be saved between sessions with Notepad alone. However, you can make changes to the default header and footer in the Windows Registry.
The command line switch for /.setup probably allows for text or file to be opened. I presume they just sideload notepad inside one of their setup programs like they do with edge/explorer.
The new version of Notepad is a Windows 11 only thing and not available for Windows 10. I'm surprised you didn't mention that since there are still far more Windows 10 users than Windows 11 users.
Pretty sure win 10 users can get it from the microsoft store. Also, I wouldn't say "far more". There's a deadline of next October for Windows 10 support, and many companies and personal users have already made the switch
@@ThisGuyDakota Windows 10 still has more than 60% of the market. Windows 11 is 20 something percent. I would say more than double is far more. A majority of Windows 11 installs are probably new PCs, which came with Windows 11. There's speculation Microsoft might end up extending that deadline because Windows 10 is still such a large share of the OS market compared to Windows 11. Larger corporations are also usually slow to change, because of what's involved to move everything to a new version and also because newer OS versions are not as battle tested and more likely to lead to downtime issues.
@wildbill4496 Fair, though I would still probably say "more" rather than "far more". I understand the implications of upgrading OSes, however, I highly doubt that that extension will be carried out. Microsoft already has plans to offer paid extensions to those kinds of clients. Another thing worth noting is that it isn't like moving from Windows 7 to 10. Windows 11 has all the same stuff under the hood, and is mainly a re-skin of Windows 10, making compatability pretty easy. When Windows 11 had it's original ISO leaked, people were able to get it booted by substituting Windows 10 files. Lastly, I'm aware of how fast the upgrades are occurring for companies. Up until July I was working for an MSP that was rolling them out to all their clients. Now I work for a vendor that builds a tool for MSPs, so I know there are a LOT of computers getting migrated as we speak
@@ThisGuyDakota Part of the problem is the Windows 11 re-skin, as you call it, is terrible and was clearly designed with the idea of using it to sell more Surface tablets, because it looks designed for tablets. IMO the start menu has gotten worse, and less user friendly, with every version of Windows after Windows 7. Even on Windows 10 I'm using a program to give me the older style start menu, which was more user friendly. It's also my understanding they took away a number of customizability features or made them harder to use. Essentially it sounds like Windows 11 is a step backwards in many respects, which is why so many have not wanted to move to it. You also have the problem with the hardware requirements, which means you can't install it on many PCs that are still perfectly usable and actually have the horsepower to run it. Windows 11 is essentially either Vista 2.0 or an unnecessary minor upgrade, in terms of how most people view it. Hopefully Microsoft does better with Windows 12, including getting rid of the tablet GUI.
@wildbill4496 well, I'll have to agree to disagree on your personal opinions and any resemblance of a tablet os. In any case, a lot of the customization options were initially missing, but have returned since then. And for the hardware requirements, sometimes security forces us into uncomfortable positions. For example, MFA is another largely hated, yet understood, security for people. Unfortunately, like it or not, Windows 10 is leaving and I doubt Windows 12 will do any pulling back either. It's not Microsoft's way to move backward. They'll just fix what needs fixing or redesign UI elements that get overwhelming criticism.
I despise the new auto-save feature. Notepad was the one app that you could temporarily write sensitive info, then close without saving knowing it was never committed to disk.
All the new Notepad updates alongside VS Code have had me drop Notepad++. Autocorrect and sessions are the two killer features I needed to drop Notepad++ personally.
My notepad has options to show hidden character and can even add hidden character to make it write right to left. Another thing that you can do in notepad and maybe other app is Type in a hexcode for a special character not on the keyboard and then press Alt+X this will convert the hex to ascii or use it to convert an emjio to HEX
The setup mode is handy for any PC in public use, you can have a message that constantly displays on the desktop as the last thing you see before you log out that can't be minimized.
Notepad can open up utf16 ("unicode") files with no encoding signature or BOM (byte order mark). Sometimes Windows makes those type of files. It's nice for saving a powershell 5.1 script as utf8 with BOM, which if it has special characters won't work right.
My favourite additions are the shortcut Ctrl-S to save, and the ability to highlight or move using Ctrl-Arrow in the same way as any other text editor.
The Notepad included in Windows versions up through 3.0 had a handy character count in the About menu, effectively telling you how many bytes it would use, even before saving! Furthermore, NT4's Notepad could create and remove Alternative Data Streams, which leads to a deeper discussion outside the scope of the vid. Unfortunately the old versions were limited to 16k (later 64k in Win9x, and ultimately unlimited in NT), but they can be quite handy to have around.
As a OLD person that saw my first computer in 1976, I, by now, have probably forget more then you will know for a while. I was a Network Engineer got 45 years as well. But, you do a fine job!
I often use it when I paste a copy and it's in an unusual font or something the destination can't cope with. Paste to Notepad, copy, paste again to destination reliably reduces it to plain text. Peobably other ways, but works for me (I keep forgetting Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text.)
Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text Thanks. That one I didn't know, so I have been using the _"temporary paste to notepad"_ for years. LOL Will try to remember this one.
@@coriscotupi I have a shortcut on my desktop to a file called Keyboard Shortcuts.rtf. Gathered over the years. I have tried to memorise it but hey, I'm over 70. Some I use often: - Wind +Shift + S = Open Screenshot Shift + Arrows = Select text, also add more to already selected text. (Awesome) Wind + L = Lock machine. Wind + Arrows = Snap active window to edges of screen. (Good for eyeballing two windows, one L one R. They size exactly to half the screen each.)
Thank you. I've been using Notepad since... 3.1? XP, at least. I learned a few useful tips. The MOST useful, though, is being able to stop the new Notepad from opening previous files without asking!
Even more Notepad fun. Pull Notepad out of Windows 3.1 and save that exe somewhere on your modern Win system. Get otvdmw and use it to run the old 16-bit version of Notepad. Works good! You can even make a shortcut and run the Win 3.1 version with a double-click. Also works with Clock and Calendar.
Other two problems I see with keeping Notepad sessions are: 1. It often opens multiple tabs for the same file, instead of the original tab; 2. It gets quite annoying to open notepad and see a bunch of tabs of quick check notes that you simply didn't close afterwards.
I’ve been using notepad for a long time: monospaced characters are just so satisfying; the speed the app opens and how you can just start writing; and auto saved tabs I don’t really have to save. but I didn’t know it had the .log (although I did know about the time & date insert, and I also didn’t know you could centre align headers & footers.
Thanks for sharing the tips. Now that Notepad isn't empty on start up a date is really needed to know when you entered it. I both glad and unhappy at the same time that it remembers everything because the data stored is a random mess.
This is probably well known but it was new to me in Windows 11: If you hover the mouse to the left of a line (so that it is a pointer instead of a cursor) and click, it will select the entire line.
I suppose an extra thing is that it can be used to open read and edit plaintext metadata. Example being the metadeta files used on plasma cutter nesting software. Doing this allows you to inject your own strings into it like a part location or read info like the dimensions and weights from the file enmasse with a basic script. Prob obvious to many here but maybe not all.
I have to smile because that ability to change the encoding in a Notepad save file was vital in getting a SCADA system I was converting to actually work - the SCADA software in the donor system had it's own custom encoding and that meant that *no* data importing or exporting was possible ... *until* I recalled Notepads trick and could use it to recode the data into a form the host system could use :D
haven't tried but hypothetically you could probably echo commands in powershell or in the command prompt for a notepad text file so when it opens up it would be pre-formatted with said contents and probably pipe a string of commands with it for logging purposes.
According to a blog post I read, Escape or Ctrl+D will close the /.setup window. Also, you'd provide a filename with that option. That let's CLI scripts display a text file in it's own window, uneditably.
What I find particularly interesting is that some Microsoft programmer apparently hated hitting F5 so much he went out of his way to write in that .LOG function.
In old notepad, if you type and the text goes on forever rather than wrap around like "word" does Then just select all your long sentances and in Format, do Word Wrap Also .txt files can be turned into .bat files which automate tasks
Thank you for this. As it was, I always ended up with a gazillion tabs in Notepad. I wished I could go back to the old Notepad. You gave the answer. Thanks!
Oh that command line to open a file in unicode is nice. I wanted to have this incorporated into the right click context menu for new text file. I'll see if I can edit the registry to incorporate it. As creating txt in the default utf8 is in some cases problematic
I must admit that since the Stored session feature was introduced, I've relied on it probably a little bit waaay too much. Like whenever I need to jot someting down, during a meeting or so, I just open a new tab in my one and only notepad session and I never save the files. Tens or even hundreds of tabs of important information there. If the session gets deleted for any reason, I am sooo screwed
The .Setup is used in conjunction with the pipe commands to use through the command window. This was very useful when you needed to make batch files for example.
/.SETUP is for installers to display instructions or other information during installation and is intended to not be interactive. The installer is supposed to terminate it when done or in most cases it self terminates during a reboot initiated by the installer.
Ok. Nice video. Now, I didn’t take notes so to remember all the commands you showed, besides watching it over and taking notes is there a place where they are already written down?
I haven't used Notepad in decades because I haven't used Windows in just as long. It did its job as a text editor, but its lack of features and Microsoft's lack of interest in maintaining, updating, improving it at the time sent me looking for alternatives. My last few years in Windows, Metapad was my preferred editor. I also used TED Notepad.
Thanks Thio. Now i can add Notepad expert in my resume
But type it up in some other program if you want the job. 😀
@@NotSoMuchFrankly If you say so 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂😂
hired
Love that newer version has infinite UNDO control Z and REDO control Y. Old version had one undo and your second control Z restored the UNDO. Also like CONTROL H find and Replace, and control G jump to line #.
Ctrl+H was present even in older versions at least since Win7 Notepad if not earlier.
This was actually useful.
Okay the bush hid the facts secret is pretty fun lmao
It was a bug, it's now fixed.
@@circjit We watched the video
nobody there watches flytech
"A second bug has hit Notepad."
@@HypeXtra i didnt watch the video. can someone explain it to me why bush hid the facts? i think it's because he did 9/11
5:27pm, 8/5/2024 My computer exploded. 💥☠️ Ok, let me note this precious moment.
lol
That was my favorite moment! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I love when my computer explodes.
@@EarthSpinnerYT are y’all bots.. y’all genuinely sound like bot
Also you have 385 hearted comments for this channel? Are y’all even real? Dead internet theory looking more and more real, every day passing
@@estebanod 385 because I'm a huge ThioJoe fan. And I think I can be a human sometimes upon request.
1:52 the "Unicode" encoding is the same as UTF-16 BE, which is also referred as the "wide" encoding
I may be wrong but AFAICT when windows says"Unicode" it means LE not BE
@@nosignal5804 oh you're right, I misremembered it for some reason
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Turn to him and repent from your sins today!
@@idehenebenezer Jesus isn't going to require repentance over Unicode endian choices
Utf8 >>>
I think I'll actually use the .LOG thing from now on.
Here is more depth to the notepad tab saving thingy:
So when you have these unsaved "tabs" they actually encode into binary, which you can use some command prompt commands (with some other tools) to de-encode it.
Opening a tab causes a new, randomised tab followed by a .bin extension. The same thing happens when you close that tab but it will delete.
These binary files are accessible by opening Run and pasting this in it:
%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\TabState
YES! Notepad has been my go-to since....198?? (when it was Multi-Tool Notepad). To this day I use Notepad daily for everything from lists to descriptions to addresses and more. Spell check/auto-correct was a total game changer. Most of these wonderful discoveries I use although the .LOG is a new fun awareness, thanks to your content. Simple, easy to use, perfect for copy paste to easily get rid of certain formatting and so much more. This is my favorite content for the day!
It's been my go-to for converting to plain text since 198!
I like having a bit more with Vim, but I hardly use most of its functionality, but still a few tasks are a bit easier with what knowledge I know of using vim.
Wow, I didn't know humanity even had computers in the 2nd century, let alone notepad
@@catholiccontriversy ..lol are you sayin' we're old?
@@MaralinaDG you're the one who said you used it in 198, a year that was 1826 years ago, lol.
Even as a person whose used computer since the 80s and also every Windows OS since 3.1, it's fun to see things I've missed or new tips/secrets.
i've had Windows 1.0 run on a 512Kb RAM/ 40Mb HDD/ 10MHz 286 CPU back in the 80s. It didn't have enough resources for Windows 3.0, though 😅. If there was a 2.0 version, i've missed it.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj I started with an Apple ][+ in '82 and went to DOS 6.2(2) (IIRC) with an original IBM AT (which I still have), then in '93 migrated a law firm from Novell (sorry Novell) to NT Advanced Server 3.1 (early adopter, GUI from Monochrome Cards, not much support - MANY NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS). The rest is history. I retired in 2015 after refusing to support any Windows after Win7. I enjoy Linux Mint now.
@@JoaoRocha-gy8hj lol, my brain completely ignored that you wrote "windows 1.0" and not windows 10, and upon reading rest of the sentence i was like wtf !? 😂 😆
@milosstojanovic4623 Yes, it would have been very challenging to put Windows 10 running on that machine, with fewer resources than a present wrist clock. 😋
The 'bush hid the facts' thing was such a blast from the past
That logging auto-timestamp feature is nice. I had not known of that.
Honestly, I'd prefer a similar deep dive into Notepad++
This
I like Notepad++ but it has some dumb design choices. You have to install a plug-in just to get the time and date stamp to keyboard key
probably out of scope for the channel
@@ados8064 Such modularity isn't that bad of a design choice it seems to me? If you didn't need such things you'd be happy they weren't included I guess. Personally I really dislike it when software gets bloated with features I don't want or need.
@@gloriascientiae7435 lol it's a feature that is in classic Notepad and modern Notepad. Many people use that feature for time stamping as Joe showed 'as a cool feature' in the video.
Good to know !
0:13 - Log Mode
0:47 - Timestamps Shortcut
1:03 - Header / Footer Print Codes
And about that:
4:31 - Getting Classic Notepad
Good !
I just removed it now, useless for me
I thought there is just one Notepad
2:50 Notepad has GOD MODE!
Maybe an obvious thing, but useful and not listed in the View>Zoom menu: you can change the zoom/font size with Ctrl+Mouse scroll wheel.
Awesome, thanks. I usually watch YT on my TV with browser at 80%, but opening Notepad to make or read a note is unreadably small.
@@flamencoprofdepending on resolution i use 125% or even sometimes 150% scaling on 1440p for everything.
Bush hid the facts. Lol
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Okae
Classic
The "/.setup" argument was used in the OOBE (as someone told me) and in Windows XP it wouldn't ket you interact with it, but hovering any window over it would erase a part of the notepad window.
Out Of Beer Error?
@@markpitts5194 out of box experience. the initial screen where you'd set your language and keyboard layout and create a user/login to microsoft, etc.
@@markpitts5194, Out Of the Box Experience.
This indicates that the window was only drawn once to the desktop canvas, without any handling of the redraw messages. (Could result from it just running once, and then basically crash/hang within the WndProc.)
I believe it was when Windows switched to using DirectX as the default (as opposed to the old GDI) when this changed, probably because now internally every "window" is essentially an individual texture that isn't just overdrawn by other overlaying textures anymore, and will persist through something shown atop of it temporarily.
@@markpitts5194 OOBE = Out Of Box Experience. Basically, the initialization part of Windows that runs the first time you boot it after installing it.
I love notepad. Used for all my early html pages.
@@YoSoyFabrizioyTuNo same, it was so exciting being able to build a website in notepad back in the day.
Excellent video. I'm a very experienced computer user, but most of what you covered in the video was new to me. Thank you.
There's an Easter egg also.
If you click and drag the gear icon (settings) in the upper right corner to the bottom, it turns
damn
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it's not an easter egg. It's merely an UI animation that gives feedback to the user that the button has been clicked. You don't have to click-and-drag, normal clicking it also makes it turn. You can see this behaviour in other apps and websites too, it's not just a Windows Notepad thing.
@@aaronplays_ Now you are being uncool, and confused.
I’ll wait patiently for Dave Plummer to drop 10 more in the comments.
He's busy avoiding Enderman's exposé videos about him…
The date/time feature is neat! I had no idea that was there!
Also, F5 key works.
Custom header and footer information can't be saved between sessions with Notepad alone. However, you can make changes to the default header and footer in the Windows Registry.
0:37 "computer exploded"
0:41 computer exploded 👍🏼👍🏼
😂
The command line switch for /.setup probably allows for text or file to be opened.
I presume they just sideload notepad inside one of their setup programs like they do with edge/explorer.
It does take a filename parameter based on the source code but I couldn’t get it to actually open a file still
0:04 *bUt yA DoN't!*
@@skyserf 😂 😂 😂
The new version of Notepad is a Windows 11 only thing and not available for Windows 10. I'm surprised you didn't mention that since there are still far more Windows 10 users than Windows 11 users.
Pretty sure win 10 users can get it from the microsoft store. Also, I wouldn't say "far more". There's a deadline of next October for Windows 10 support, and many companies and personal users have already made the switch
@@ThisGuyDakota Windows 10 still has more than 60% of the market. Windows 11 is 20 something percent. I would say more than double is far more. A majority of Windows 11 installs are probably new PCs, which came with Windows 11. There's speculation Microsoft might end up extending that deadline because Windows 10 is still such a large share of the OS market compared to Windows 11. Larger corporations are also usually slow to change, because of what's involved to move everything to a new version and also because newer OS versions are not as battle tested and more likely to lead to downtime issues.
@wildbill4496 Fair, though I would still probably say "more" rather than "far more". I understand the implications of upgrading OSes, however, I highly doubt that that extension will be carried out. Microsoft already has plans to offer paid extensions to those kinds of clients.
Another thing worth noting is that it isn't like moving from Windows 7 to 10. Windows 11 has all the same stuff under the hood, and is mainly a re-skin of Windows 10, making compatability pretty easy. When Windows 11 had it's original ISO leaked, people were able to get it booted by substituting Windows 10 files.
Lastly, I'm aware of how fast the upgrades are occurring for companies. Up until July I was working for an MSP that was rolling them out to all their clients. Now I work for a vendor that builds a tool for MSPs, so I know there are a LOT of computers getting migrated as we speak
@@ThisGuyDakota Part of the problem is the Windows 11 re-skin, as you call it, is terrible and was clearly designed with the idea of using it to sell more Surface tablets, because it looks designed for tablets. IMO the start menu has gotten worse, and less user friendly, with every version of Windows after Windows 7. Even on Windows 10 I'm using a program to give me the older style start menu, which was more user friendly. It's also my understanding they took away a number of customizability features or made them harder to use. Essentially it sounds like Windows 11 is a step backwards in many respects, which is why so many have not wanted to move to it. You also have the problem with the hardware requirements, which means you can't install it on many PCs that are still perfectly usable and actually have the horsepower to run it. Windows 11 is essentially either Vista 2.0 or an unnecessary minor upgrade, in terms of how most people view it. Hopefully Microsoft does better with Windows 12, including getting rid of the tablet GUI.
@wildbill4496 well, I'll have to agree to disagree on your personal opinions and any resemblance of a tablet os.
In any case, a lot of the customization options were initially missing, but have returned since then. And for the hardware requirements, sometimes security forces us into uncomfortable positions. For example, MFA is another largely hated, yet understood, security for people.
Unfortunately, like it or not, Windows 10 is leaving and I doubt Windows 12 will do any pulling back either. It's not Microsoft's way to move backward. They'll just fix what needs fixing or redesign UI elements that get overwhelming criticism.
ThioJoe now: Ehh.. here aresome notepad secrets!
ThioJoe in 5 years: Ehh.. here are some area 51 secrets!
I guess if windows and computer stuff stops getting views, he could transition to alien documentaries and ghost hunting.
@@Aeduo You know enderman!
@@rafaelmkrtichyan oh, you looked at my subscriptions I guess?
Love these kinds of video. You are always straight to the point and make things easy to understand.
Man your content is very unique when it comes to the depth and rarity of information.
I despise the new auto-save feature. Notepad was the one app that you could temporarily write sensitive info, then close without saving knowing it was never committed to disk.
theo you're a genius , great video bro loved it , never knew notepad would act as log book !! it blew my mind
Wow, lots of awesome changes that I wish we had back in the day before I moved to Linux. Great to see them updating it
All the new Notepad updates alongside VS Code have had me drop Notepad++. Autocorrect and sessions are the two killer features I needed to drop Notepad++ personally.
00:01 Me: * *gives incredulous look* *
00:20 Me: "Holy Sh*t!"
I'm just a regular user, and most interesting to me was the logging capability! Thank you for informing us!
My notepad has options to show hidden character and can even add hidden character to make it write right to left.
Another thing that you can do in notepad and maybe other app is
Type in a hexcode for a special character not on the keyboard and then press Alt+X this will convert the hex to ascii or use it to convert an emjio to HEX
The setup mode is handy for any PC in public use, you can have a message that constantly displays on the desktop as the last thing you see before you log out that can't be minimized.
A feature I use a lot is using streams in notepad to hide any 'sensitive' info that I use semi regularly. Thought that's pretty cool.
Notepad can open up utf16 ("unicode") files with no encoding signature or BOM (byte order mark). Sometimes Windows makes those type of files. It's nice for saving a powershell 5.1 script as utf8 with BOM, which if it has special characters won't work right.
My favourite additions are the shortcut Ctrl-S to save, and the ability to highlight or move using Ctrl-Arrow in the same way as any other text editor.
The Notepad included in Windows versions up through 3.0 had a handy character count in the About menu, effectively telling you how many bytes it would use, even before saving!
Furthermore, NT4's Notepad could create and remove Alternative Data Streams, which leads to a deeper discussion outside the scope of the vid.
Unfortunately the old versions were limited to 16k (later 64k in Win9x, and ultimately unlimited in NT), but they can be quite handy to have around.
As a OLD person that saw my first computer in 1976, I, by now, have probably forget more then you will know for a while.
I was a Network Engineer got 45 years as well. But, you do a fine job!
Thanks to TJ, I have started a "thing happened" and a "blah blah blah" file. Thanks, man.
I often use it when I paste a copy and it's in an unusual font or something the destination can't cope with. Paste to Notepad, copy, paste again to destination reliably reduces it to plain text. Peobably other ways, but works for me (I keep forgetting Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text.)
Ctl + Shift +V = paste plain text
Thanks.
That one I didn't know, so I have been using the _"temporary paste to notepad"_ for years. LOL
Will try to remember this one.
@@coriscotupi I have a shortcut on my desktop to a file called Keyboard Shortcuts.rtf. Gathered over the years. I have tried to memorise it but hey, I'm over 70.
Some I use often: -
Wind +Shift + S = Open Screenshot
Shift + Arrows = Select text, also add more to already selected text. (Awesome)
Wind + L = Lock machine.
Wind + Arrows = Snap active window to edges of screen. (Good for eyeballing two windows, one L one R. They size exactly to half the screen each.)
@@flamencoprof Cool, thanks
Love these hidden gems.
Great programme. No need to complicate it.
Thank you. I've been using Notepad since... 3.1? XP, at least. I learned a few useful tips.
The MOST useful, though, is being able to stop the new Notepad from opening previous files without asking!
Even more Notepad fun. Pull Notepad out of Windows 3.1 and save that exe somewhere on your modern Win system. Get otvdmw and use it to run the old 16-bit version of Notepad. Works good! You can even make a shortcut and run the Win 3.1 version with a double-click. Also works with Clock and Calendar.
@@lanatrzczka ooh, 3.1? Where would you find that version? On a long-lost floppy disk? 😞
Other two problems I see with keeping Notepad sessions are: 1. It often opens multiple tabs for the same file, instead of the original tab; 2. It gets quite annoying to open notepad and see a bunch of tabs of quick check notes that you simply didn't close afterwards.
the log feature is going to be useful, Long with spelling check. cheers. I run it every day.
3:15 Why would anyone want to use that?
@@JJ_TheGreat He doesn’t know
Hopefully somebody knows.
I’ve been using notepad for a long time: monospaced characters are just so satisfying; the speed the app opens and how you can just start writing; and auto saved tabs I don’t really have to save. but I didn’t know it had the .log (although I did know about the time & date insert, and I also didn’t know you could centre align headers & footers.
I use classic Notepad at least 50 times a week. Thanks for showing how to keep accessing it.
Maybe /.SETUP was used to display EULAs
I remember making batch files in notepad back in mid 90s to stuff around with the computers at school. Good times.
Thanks for sharing the tips. Now that Notepad isn't empty on start up a date is really needed to know when you entered it. I both glad and unhappy at the same time that it remembers everything because the data stored is a random mess.
This is probably well known but it was new to me in Windows 11: If you hover the mouse to the left of a line (so that it is a pointer instead of a cursor) and click, it will select the entire line.
I suppose an extra thing is that it can be used to open read and edit plaintext metadata. Example being the metadeta files used on plasma cutter nesting software. Doing this allows you to inject your own strings into it like a part location or read info like the dimensions and weights from the file enmasse with a basic script. Prob obvious to many here but maybe not all.
setup mode is super important in being part of the register.
setup mode is your GUI.
I have to smile because that ability to change the encoding in a Notepad save file was vital in getting a SCADA system I was converting to actually work - the SCADA software in the donor system had it's own custom encoding and that meant that *no* data importing or exporting was possible ... *until* I recalled Notepads trick and could use it to recode the data into a form the host system could use :D
Nice things to know if I haven't ditched Windows for good months ago. I would like to know that 20 years ago (it had those things 20 years ago?);
🔥 I use Notepad all the time, but so many new fun hints! Best 8 minutes I'll spend all week, at least.
haven't tried but hypothetically you could probably echo commands in powershell or in the command prompt for a notepad text file so when it opens up it would be pre-formatted with said contents and probably pipe a string of commands with it for logging purposes.
According to a blog post I read, Escape or Ctrl+D will close the /.setup window. Also, you'd provide a filename with that option. That let's CLI scripts display a text file in it's own window, uneditably.
I think the "Bush hid the facts" bug also occurs with "this app can break" and what I thought of myself, "what are you doing"
Very interesting. I didn't know a lot of these
What I find particularly interesting is that some Microsoft programmer apparently hated hitting F5 so much he went out of his way to write in that .LOG function.
Nope. I didn't know about this. Love it!
In old notepad, if you type and the text goes on forever rather than wrap around like "word" does
Then just select all your long sentances and in Format, do Word Wrap
Also .txt files can be turned into .bat files which automate tasks
In my 20’s I lived for stuff like this… how did I miss so much!!
The /p options also work in Word I think. I have used this once when i was debugging printer driver issues back in XP.
The fact that Notepad defaults to working with .txt files and that, incombination with hidden file extensions, is maddening!
The joke about Bush was hilarious 😂
Cool, didn't know the log thing. Could be useful if you want to keep a daily diary or something.
Thank you for this. As it was, I always ended up with a gazillion tabs in Notepad. I wished I could go back to the old Notepad. You gave the answer. Thanks!
nope... never knew these things... excellent :) thanks
how are you still not at 10 million subs, you deserve it bro :D
I love the find "Ctrl+F" feature for making conversion look up tables...
Oh that command line to open a file in unicode is nice.
I wanted to have this incorporated into the right click context menu for new text file. I'll see if I can edit the registry to incorporate it. As creating txt in the default utf8 is in some cases problematic
I must admit that since the Stored session feature was introduced, I've relied on it probably a little bit waaay too much. Like whenever I need to jot someting down, during a meeting or so, I just open a new tab in my one and only notepad session and I never save the files. Tens or even hundreds of tabs of important information there. If the session gets deleted for any reason, I am sooo screwed
I prefer Geany text editor. Quick to load, syntax hightlighting, easy external program calls like compilers, color shemes, etc.
The .Setup is used in conjunction with the pipe commands to use through the command window. This was very useful when you needed to make batch files for example.
/.SETUP is for installers to display instructions or other information during installation and is intended to not be interactive. The installer is supposed to terminate it when done or in most cases it self terminates during a reboot initiated by the installer.
Ok. Nice video. Now, I didn’t take notes so to remember all the commands you showed, besides watching it over and taking notes is there a place where they are already written down?
Dang, did not know. Thanks. FIle size: very old notepad was limited to 64k size, newer versions are unlimited.
Thanks for the updates sir.
I love to tweak windows too much and you have made it easier for me.
God bless you sir 🙏
I've learnt Ms Office. I thought Notepad was Just a TEXT only App with no other features. Thanks for the new infos..
Didn't know about much of this, so glad I watched it.
Never expected to be this early lmao
me too
congrats weeb
Wow. I am gobsmacked The log tip is amazing
It's nice to see Microsoft slowly catching up to where Kate was on Linux.
8 years ago.
First time I’ve been early to a thio Joe video
Thank you for not calling these "hacks". Made the difference be me watching or not.
I haven't used Notepad in decades because I haven't used Windows in just as long. It did its job as a text editor, but its lack of features and Microsoft's lack of interest in maintaining, updating, improving it at the time sent me looking for alternatives. My last few years in Windows, Metapad was my preferred editor. I also used TED Notepad.
I dont even use windows anymore but these videos are still very interesting 😂
thanks, this was informative.
Everytime I saw your video, I learn something new
Takes me back to the ancient Wordstar. Most of the control+letter options we use today came from Wordstar... maybe even earlier... I'm not that old.