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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I just uninstalled the UWP Notepad and use the old one. But I guess some people need hobbies.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    You can do that??
    Guess I have to find out how to do it in a reliable way for our prepped client systems!!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Only way I've found is to have a script that uninstalls certain apps using Powershell on logon. We are rolling out Notepad3 instead, it's better than UWP or classic, which they patched to nag you about the UWP version.

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