[seritools]

you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

[ptx]

What? Did they accidentally revert the improvements they already made to previously shipped versions of the old notepad program?

[tracker1]

I think it's in reference to using Win9x notepad.exe as opposed to somewhere in the Win7-10 timeframe before they went over the top in Win11.

[ptx]

Ah, yes, I misread it as the newer versions shipping an older notepad.