The Notepad Bug - But Why?

I should have waited to finish watching the video before trying it on Win 7 RC.

Nice post Laura, keep 'em coming!

Also, do you know this poweruser tip for notepad?

If you create a new text file, write ".LOG" in the first line and save it. Next time you open the file in notepad, it will append the time and date on the last line of the file. Try it out!

I cannot reproduce the bug on my Windows XP SP3....

Haha, i did the exact same thing

Here's another bug: why isn't there any support for \n style newlines? It's a pain to open simple text documents in WordPad. Will this be fixed in Windows 8 maybe?

You can also press F5 to get date and time, the slightly manual way of doing it.

That's just weird

By the way, these aer every professional looking videos. I like them.

Fun video, I think notepad got problem in type Chinese Simple, Vietnamese, Japanese, ...

i also tried it and couldnt get it to work then i saw the end

I couldn't get "Goats are Tards" to work no matter what I did, but I did get "bush hid the facts" to work provided I typed it in all lower case.

oops wrong thread...

bringin da love to notepad. Great vid. Dont know where you dug up the guy in the video but hes a pro.

cool.  There is also another strange bug.  If you delete c:\pagefile.sys, windows crashes.  Wierd.

did know about the bug, but didn't know we it is

It's interesting to go deep for some interesting/historical stuff in Windows.

I really like tales of "the old new things" blog

I just tried everything on XP Pro. Can't repro. Please make a screencast showing us the actual bug.

Laura did u used to be on G4?