BlueÆtherMicrosoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage
db2Have they removed the option to disable the alias and bring back the old notepad.exe?
It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.
Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.
Ah, I always associate my .txts with notepad++ - notepad.exe is only started from Win+R as a temporary clipboard.
This is the guy that wrote Task Manager for Windows back in the day. Hes an old Microsoft Windows developer. So even if he used AI id be interested in seeing what he made.
This is ALSO a guy behind many of those ”your PC is at risk” scams back in the day, selling useless optimization tools that extorted money from victims. He specifically quit Microsoft to pursue that and was even convicted later. Still chooses to downplay and try to hide what he did.
Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions (in 2006)
JeenaI’ve been using TextEditor.app on OSX to quickly open it and jot down something during meetings, etc. until Apple put in cloud into it and you needed to first choose the name and the path of the file where you wanted to store it.
This is when I decided to write TextEd.app which would only do what the previous app did, open a new window with a textarea and only when you wanted to save it it would ask you for the path and name. I even removed the RDT functionality and it would be just plain text without anything.
PlutoniumAcidJust use Notepad++ instead?
Dave is a charlatan who think that the fact he worked on one app decades ago somehow makes him relevant in the modern day. Not to mention that he sold shitty software that tricked people into fake anti-virusnd and got hit legally for it.