Plummer has spent recent months telling Microsoft what they do not want to hear about Windows 11. He argued the OS needs its own Windows XP SP2 moment, a stretch where Microsoft drops new features and ...

Dave Plummer’s TinyRetroPad revives classic Notepad simplicity, stripping away AI, telemetry, and unnecessary modern clutter Built in under 3 kilobytes, the new tool highlights growing frustration ...

Microsoft's habit of adding unnecessary features to Notepad is a symptom of broader bloating in the Windows codebase. But it is possible to go back to basics with a version of the editor that fits in ...

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When you encounter the dreaded error message “FTP connection refused,” it can be both frustrating and perplexing. This issue plagues many users, from web ...

Have you ever been deep into a project, only to be halted by an FTP connection timed out error? It’s frustrating, right? If you’ve been faced with this issue, you’re not alone. FTP (File Transfer ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

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In this post, we will show you how to use Markdown in Notepad on a Windows 11 PC. Microsoft has introduced lightweight formatting in Notepad, and it supports Markdown (*.md) files to work directly ...