I have never had a problem with it displaying any .txt or richtext file correctly. Notepad can as well, as all wordpad does is add richtext support to notepad. I have text files dating back to the DOS ...

Windows sets Notepad as the default program for opening text files. Although you can use Notepad to create basic documents that don't require formatting, Wordpad lets you add images, customized text, ...

Microsoft has discontinued WordPad with no official explanation, though signs point to security concerns. Fortunately, there ...

Included with every version of Windows 7 is WordPad, a lightweight program that gives you the basic functionality of a word processor. By default, Windows 7 includes a shortcut to WordPad from within ...

Thankfully, there are now ample free options, though, this being Microsoft, I can't help but see this as yet another move to try to force someone to use Office. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if ...