The functionality may still be there
2025-05-23 17:48:54.940864+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
Jason Lefkowitz @jalefkowit@vmst.io observed
What being a Windows user is like in 2025
With a link to very-jaded on this Ars Technica article:
There's a difference between the "Notepad app" and notepad.exe. The Notepad app has the AI and all the new stuff in it. But the old C : \windows\system32\notepad.exe still exists, and is unencumbered by all those new features.
By uninstalling the "Notepad app", the old notepad.exe takes over as the default text editor. And you can once again edit a config file without having the quotation marks automatically replaced by smart quotes.
EDIT: I've only done this on my work Windows 11 Pro 23H2 laptop. I don't know about other versions of Windows.