How to Get Notepad on the Desktop. The basic text editor Notepad comes installed as a native Windows accessory. Although Windows lets you launch the Notepad application through the Start menu or ...

The updated Notepad also adds text zooming. You can either navigate to the menu and select View > Zoom, or use Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus and Ctrl + MouseWheel to zoom in and out.

In Microsoft's build version 17713 of Windows 10, Notepad receives a few important updates that help modernize the antiquated utility.

For more than three decades Notepad couldn't display all text files correctly. Now thanks to a new update, it can finally will. Previously, Notepad wasn't able to find the correct line endings.