

Today, the latest version of this app can manage text files of up to 1GB in size, with built-in support for recommending a different text editor if the user wants to load files that are larger than this limit.

Windows Notepad app comes preinstalled on all versions of Windows OS, but if for some reason users have uninstalled or want to reinstall it after local storage corruption or accidental deletion, they can do so easily. Since its original release in 1983, Microsoft Notepad remained one of the most popular standalone applications that is distributed inside the Windows OS, managing to evolve significantly over the 4 decades on the market while retaining its simple and approachable interface and base functions.

Windows Notepad is a free simple text editor that is distributed as a pre-installed application on all versions of Windows OS ever released, enabling users of all ages to take full control over editing plain text files, including compatible formats such as log files, INI files, and batch files that are encoded in ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16.
