Windows 10: Notepad is not working. Windows 10

Notepad is not working, have tried running it as administrator, but same result each time. Notepad will appear on the task bar, but there is no window or anything. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, didn't fix it. I have tried running both SFC and DISM. SFC found corrupt files and successfully repaired them, but that didn't fix my issue with Notepad.

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Windows 10 Character Map and Notepad

Well I found the answer to my question. I should have thought through this a little longer.

Notepad is native in ANSI mode.
However Wordpad can work in UTF-8 mode.
I found steps to make Notepad usable in UTF-8 mode but there are a lot of steps and once again there has to be a registry hack to make it work.
Now how do I make Workpad be listed in the most used application through the Start Menu?

 

Notepad on Windows 7\

Suggestion would be uninstall then new install on Win7. Maybe an older version would work better? A list, maybe Version 7?
News | Notepad++

 

Notepad

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the steps provided below:

• Open Task Manager. Here’s a tip: press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
• Click on Startup tab.
• Select Notepad from the list and click on Disable.

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