You can tweak away the new notepad entirely. It’s just an execution alias which you can deactivate. The win32 notepad will always be shipped with windows in two copies[0].
I miss the original notepad that was barely maintained. I always knew if I just wanted to view something just as quickly and plainly as possible I could use notepad to open it, if I wanted more features, I'd use something like notepad++ or something specific to the type of file.
I do like that the new notepad remembers what you have open in unsaved tabs, but only because I use it mostly at work. On my home pc, I don't really want the "generic text file preview app" to remember every random thing I've ever pasted into it after I reboot.
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[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060328-17/?p=31...
I do like that the new notepad remembers what you have open in unsaved tabs, but only because I use it mostly at work. On my home pc, I don't really want the "generic text file preview app" to remember every random thing I've ever pasted into it after I reboot.