Re: Waaat ?
"Poor notepad - I fear it’ll not escape the MS mangling."
If you could find an old Win2k/2003/XP install CD (or even an old computer/VM still running one of those), the Notepad EXE from them will run fine under current Windows. No ribbon, no clutter, just the original simple text-editing box with its simple menus. And all is right with the world.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
