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.
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…
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…