You can change the default Character Encoding in Notepad from UTF-8 to ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8 BOM. using Registry Editor.

You can restore or reset all Notepad settings like default Font, open window size, position, etc, by following this tutorial for Windows 11/10.

Changing the Default Editor From Notepad to Wordpad. Windows sets Notepad as the default program for opening text files. Although you can use Notepad to create basic documents that don't require ...