@tinker next time you encounter this - portable apps don’t need admin rights or installation. https://portableapps.com/apps/development/notepadpp_portable

@tinker @briankrebs I did - no choice of OS, you said. But are you unable to install other Windows apps?

@tinker @briankrebs If only other text editors had been written for Windows…

The real clever move Microsoft has pulled is not the AI enshittification of their OS, it’s the Jedi mind trick of thinking their defaults are the one true apps.