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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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Yeah, my work computer I uninstalled the UWP Notepad by right clicking it in start menu and choosing uninstall. Then when I open Notepad from search or run it opens the old Notepad instead.
I am aware of Remove-AppXPackage being a thing but I kind of expected the notepad thing to be an integral part of itm
Probably the usual of replacig the frontend and usi g a skin on top of the old EXE by using it as a backend.