Windows Notepad

Windows Notepad is a basic text editor that is included with Microsoft Windows.

History
Notepad was first developed for MS-DOS to support the Microsoft Mouse, released in 1983. It has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Feature updates
Notepad for Windows 10 added support for header and footers. In May 2018, support for end of line (EOL) characters from, , and were added, extending the ability to correctly display text files beyond those using just Windows EOL characters, such as carriage returns (CR) and line feeds (LF).

Notepad for Windows 11 entered public beta testing on January 5, 2022 through the Windows Insider Program. The UI was updated to take advantage of Windows 11 features, such as the dark and light modes of Mica. Other updates include the introduction of multi-level undo and a revised find and replace feature.

Supported file types
If a text file in Notepad is saved with any of the following extensions at the end of the filename, it will identify as one of the following file types:
 * .txt (Plain Text File)
 * .bat (Batch File)
 * .exe (Executable File)
 * .reg (Windows Registry File)
 * .jar (Java Archive File)
 * .vbs (Visual Basic Script File)
 * .js (JavaScript File)
 * .eml (Email File)
 * .arj (Archived by Robert Jung File)
 * .dll (Dynamic Link Library File)
 * .sys (Windows System File)
 * .html (HTML Script File)
 * .tar (TAR Archive File)
 * .com (COM Executable File)
 * .ini (Initialization Configuration File)
 * .css (Cascading Style Sheets File)