Windows 10: Looking for free Wordpad substitute since MS is pulling the plug on Wordpad.

On my Insider Canary 26052 system, I went to start Wordpad, and lo and behold it's GONE. Sure enough I discovered I'd missed the MS announcement that they were going to drop it after the 29 years it's been a part of Windows. I don't wish to spend $500 / year putting Office 365 on my 5 home PCs, so I've started looking for a free substitute.I've looked at several alternatives so far and what currently looks best to me is Google Docs which I can access by going to docs.google.com. It has a little different user interface, so I've had to do a little self-education, but after doing that, it appear

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hi

I went to use WordPad today but am unable to find it in apps. Scrolling down the list it doesn't list notepad or WordPad as an app. I tried to ask Cortana to open it by saying "open WordPad" all I get as a response is her say open what app. looking at the
speechbox it seems to recognise what I am saying I couldn't get her to open any apps try calculator as well . She did suggest sites on how to open WordPad. In the end I went through file explorer and found a shortcut to WordPad but why isn't it listed as an
app ?

 

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Hello Tatic,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Please provide some additional information, so that we can assist you better.

What exactly you mean when you say ‘deleted’, are you referring to the application which was showing in the Start menu or the application was uninstalled from your computer?

WordPad is a basic word processor that is included with almost all the versions of Microsoft Windows.

I would suggest you to follow below mentioned steps.

1. Click on Start menu and type ‘WordPad' in the taskbar search and click on the result. This will open WordPad.
   
2. If you’re not able to open WordPad, Press
   Windows + R and type ‘Write’ and hit enter.
   
3. You will WordPad application launching on the
   screen.
   
4. Navigate to C:\windows\system32\ and look for a ‘write’ (File).
   
5. You will see the application now.
   

Hope it helps.

Let us know if you got the help you needed by clicking ‘Yes or No’.

Harish

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

Wordpad

I did uninstalled it by accident and when I tried to open it, it says "Could not create new document"