From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:15:59 -0600, David Carson    
   wrote:   
      
   >It was posted last year that Microsoft removed its Wordpad text editor   
   >from Windows 11. I commented that I use Notepad many times every day,   
   >almost constantly, but I don't use Wordpad. Well, after a Windows 10   
   >laptop I own got baptized (i.e. immersed in water, NOT sprinkled with   
   >it) and I had to replace it, I found that I missed Wordpad on that   
   >computer. I learned that it's fairly simple to restore Wordpad simply   
   >by copying the binaries from an earlier version. If one does not have   
   >the binaries anymore, they aren't hard to find online.   
   >   
   >It does not surprise me that this works, as I use Microsoft Office   
   >Picture Manager, which is from the Windows XP era, on Windows 7 and 10   
   >computers to this day, and I used to use builds of Telnet from, I   
   >think, the Windows 2000 era, on much later systems. The only thing   
   >that surprises me is that I missed Wordpad badly enough to do this.   
      
   There are several rtf/text editors around if you need a replacement   
   for Wordpad. The one I use most often is Roughdraft, and another   
   called Jarte.   
      
      
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