Notepad is also helpful for stripping text formatting when you copy content from Web pages into your own business files. To open Notepad quickly, you can create a shortcut for it on your desktop.

Despite its slim profile and Windows 3.1-style interface, Notepad is a tool that Windows users have come to know and love, using it for all manner of tweaking, quick editing, and other tasks. The ...

Open Notepad and click the pin-shaped button on the title bar to keep the Notepad window on top. Go to SnapFiles.com and download the DeskPins ZIP file.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad Find and change the StatusBar key on the right-hand side to 1 instead of 0, open up Notepad again, and you'll notice that the status bar is now enabled.