Question Is Windows Notepad solely cloud-based now ?

[1405]

No more allowing me to keep my personal notes and thoughts on my local-only drive?

And why doesn't Notepad remind me to save before I close the app like it used to?

Lastly, does Notepad behave like this is Windows 10 too?

 

[USAFRet]

No it is not "solely cloud based".
Mine isn't (Win 11 Pro)

 

[1405]

No it is not "solely cloud based".
Mine isn't (Win 11 Pro)

But it stores my notes to the cloud, yes?
Something is different since this last Win 11 update. The note opens immediately, but there's a pause before the text is displayed. Like it is being downloaded.

 

[USAFRet]

But it stores my notes to the cloud, yes?
Something is different since this last Win 11 update. The note opens immediately, but there's a pause before the text is displayed. Like it is being downloaded.

Mine stores locally.

 

[Colif]

Are you on insiders? https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-...ession-state-for-notepad-in-windows-11.17595/

from what I can tell it should save the info in - C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming

Something is different since this last Win 11 update. The note opens immediately, but there's a pause before the text is displayed. Like it is being downloaded.

are your documents on your PC or on Onedrive?

 

[1405]

are your documents on your PC or on Onedrive?

I never use One Drive. In fact, I uninstalled it. The doc I was working with was on my PC's desktop. Others are either on my PC or my personal cloud (NAS).

 

[gardenman]

My guess is that you can click on the gear icon on the top/right and change some setting to fix it.

Reference: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/notepad-not-opening-clean-page.3822504/post-23111879

Unfortunately, I don't know what setting that would be. Maybe @stressedhuman could tell you.

 

[BFG-9000]

The note opens immediately, but there's a pause before the text is displayed. Like it is being downloaded.

It's still local, but all AWP store apps have a loading screen and telemetry. The OS shell is responsible for that and creating the app window frame so it happens pretty much immediately, but the bloated software itself takes time to load so there is a noticeable delay afterwards, even with a SSD. This was why so many people went to the trouble of creating a shortcut to the classic win32 calculator instead of using the trashy Windows 10 modern calculator app.

Problem is, even though the classic win32 notepad program is still included in Windows 11, Microsoft have gone through some trouble to redirect any attempts to run it to the modern notepad store app. There are workarounds which allow you to launch old notepad.exe, but unlike the calculator you are going to have text files everywhere and double-clicking on those can still bring up the app instead, because Microsoft keeps reverting the file association for text files back to it.

Apps are the future, since it's just an irresistible opportunity to place contextual ads into the brave new AI powered Windows 12, as in "Looks like you are trying to do your taxes/write a letter, here is a discount for TurboTax or MS Word!" after the ever watchful AI looking over your shoulder infers what you are doing. Windows 11 23H2 (which you can preview now but isn't in general release yet) already added Bing Chat AI Copilot for search, and OpenAI cocreator to generate images for you in the Paint 3D app.

 

[1405]

It's still local, but all AWP store apps have a loading screen and telemetry. The OS shell is responsible for that and creating the app window frame so it happens pretty much immediately, but the bloated software itself takes time to load so there is a noticeable delay afterwards, even with a SSD. This was why so many people went to the trouble of creating a shortcut to the classic win32 calculator instead of using the trashy Windows 10 modern calculator app.

Problem is, even though the classic win32 notepad program is still included in Windows 11, Microsoft have gone through some trouble to redirect any attempts to run it to the modern notepad store app. There are workarounds which allow you to launch old notepad.exe, but unlike the calculator you are going to have text files everywhere and double-clicking on those can still bring up the app instead, because Microsoft keeps reverting the file association for text files back to it.

Apps are the future, since it's just an irresistible opportunity to place contextual ads into the brave new AI powered Windows 12, as in "Looks like you are trying to do your taxes/write a letter, here is a discount for TurboTax or MS Word!" after the ever watchful AI looking over your shoulder infers what you are doing. Windows 11 23H2 (which you can preview now but isn't in general release yet) already added Bing Chat AI Copilot for search, and OpenAI cocreator to generate images for you in the Paint 3D app.

Thank you. That did the trick. Got my ol' Notepad back. Simple app for simple minds.
Also found this: https://www.windowsdigitals.com/res...proach_2_Restoring_old_Notepad_using_registry
Basically, the same method. You get best answer (if there still is such a thing here)

 

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