Despite its slim profile and Windows 3.1-style interface, Notepad is a tool that Windows users have come to know and love, using it for all manner of tweaking, quick editing, and other tasks. The ...

Notepad is also helpful for stripping text formatting when you copy content from Web pages into your own business files. To open Notepad quickly, you can create a shortcut for it on your desktop.

Learn how to place Sticky Note or Notepad shortcuts on Windows desktop. You can also add them to the taskbar for even faster access.

Open Notepad, click on the "DeskPins" icon on the Taskbar and then click anywhere within the Notepad window to keep it on top. Go to Dropbox.com and download the Always On Top ZIP file.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Notepad Find and change the StatusBar key on the right-hand side to 1 instead of 0, open up Notepad again, and you'll notice that the status bar is now enabled.