Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015)

Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by simcop2387 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:43PM (#21349953)

This reminds me of the best "feature" that windows 95 had to me as a kid. If you clicked the start menu, then hit alt + -, you'd get the standard menu for playing with a window. Minimize, Maximize, Move (greyed out), and a few others. Importantly though was that Close was an option. Clicking it would remove the start button. This lead to lots of fun playing with computers in stores at the time, closing the start buttons on them all.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120213-00/?p=83...

This was before the advent of "windows keyboards" and the menu key on them.

EDIT changed link to a better one

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by whoopdedo on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:42PM (#21350666)

I never stumbled into that one. What I do remember from Windows 95b through 7 is if the keyboard focus was on the taskbar and you pressed Alt+F4, it brought up the Shutdown/Restart/Logoff dialog. That made it possible to cleanly shutdown the computer blindly from the keyboard. Win,Esc,Alt+F4,R,Enter

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by Noumenon72 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:01PM (#21350796)

It's Win+X, U, U now.

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by connicpu on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:38PM (#21351648)

That's still a thing, the focus just needs to be on the desktop!

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by ygra on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:52AM (#21352551)

Both the Desktop and the taskbar belong to Explorer and trying to close that is what triggers that dialog. Both still work in Windows 10.

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by pierrec on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:05PM (#21351154)

You can still do pretty much the same thing. Win+D, Alt+F4.

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Re:Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (2015) by blibble on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:07PM (#21350103)

move worked to begin with, that was even more fun

they fixed it some way through Win98 I thought...

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