Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by Neil44 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @07:51AM (#45965014)

Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what, iirc it loaded in 0.1 seconds vs 0.01 for notepad.exe

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by toyg on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:56AM (#45966009)

> Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what

It was a proper WYSIWYG editor working with rich text, effectively a poor man's Word.

Microsoft should have turned it into a markdown editor, instead of killing it.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by Neil44 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:35AM (#45968522)

It was, and worked well with rtf. I vaguely recall it being better than notepad if you were for example looking at strings in binary files, something like that, I forget...

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by vrighter on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:16AM (#46004841)

I often used it to convert unix style line endings to windows. Notepad choked on those, wordpad could load them easily, and just resaving them as a txt file converted them to windows line endings.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by inejge on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @01:46PM (#45970297)

IIRC Wordpad was the only always-installed program which could open text files with Unix line endings and display them properly. Until at least Vista, Notepad would treat them as if containing a single line.

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