You can make Text files open directly in Notepad++ instead of Notepad in Windows 11/10. Learn how to make Notepad++ as the default Text Editor.

If you have problems recovering a corrupted or unsaved Notepad file, then use one of these 3 methods to recover the Notepad file.

Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

File Setup To build a CSV file to open in Microsoft Excel, you'll need to decide how many columns you'll use in Microsoft Excel for the categories of information you're preparing in Notepad.

When you double-click on a file in Windows, it will automatically open a default program that is configured to manage these types of files. It is common, though, want or need to use a different ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default ...