Windows 10: W10 Notepad Application Usage !

All this years I have been using the simple Notepad for basic word processing, but now Microsoft in their wisdom decided they know better and changed it on W10

Notepad completely crashes and disappears from the desk top; if I selected a page setup to be a Landscape.

Why ???

I think if they go on like this they; will loose a big chunk from the personal computer market, who needs configuration/setup/bugs/complications etc.

every time they upgrade their operating system?

No thanks, Mr. Bill Gates.

:)

 

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

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.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write to us
for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Notepad

I followed your suggestion but wasn't able to find Notepad listed on the startup. There are some listed as program but don't know which ones it could be.