Microsoft has patched a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the modern Windows Notepad application, tracked as CVE-2026-20841, as part of its February 2026 Patch Tuesday release cycle.
For Home users yes, the Pro editions still come with both, and Enterprise/LTSC only come with classic and no Microsoft Store/UWP apps, but yeah overwhelming majority of users are stuck on Home, so…
I have is Windows 11 Enterprise, and that doesn’t start the classic… even if I manually invoke that classic notepad.exe from system32.
I have never opened Microsoft Store other than to install WSL2, and I don’t think my company’s admins are dumb enough to provision such stuff automatically, but I dunno. If I uninstall the store Notepad, it’d probably revert back to the classic version, but of course I’d rather uninstall the entire OS…
For Home users yes, the Pro editions still come with both, and Enterprise/LTSC only come with classic and no Microsoft Store/UWP apps, but yeah overwhelming majority of users are stuck on Home, so…
I have is Windows 11 Enterprise, and that doesn’t start the classic… even if I manually invoke that classic notepad.exe from system32.
I have never opened Microsoft Store other than to install WSL2, and I don’t think my company’s admins are dumb enough to provision such stuff automatically, but I dunno. If I uninstall the store Notepad, it’d probably revert back to the classic version, but of course I’d rather uninstall the entire OS…