notepad.exe
Notepad by Microsoft
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
There are 8 versions of notepad.exe in the wild, the latest version being 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247). notepad.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 148.81 KB. Numerous variations of notepad.exe have been installed with both WinRAR 5.00 (32-bit) and Activation Assistant for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0076% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 2.92 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 7.52 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 373 Bytes per minute for reads and 7 Bytes per minute for writes.
What is notepad.exe?
Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. The resulting files—typically saved with the .txt extension—have no format tags or styles.
About notepad.exe (from Microsoft)
“Notepad is a basic text editor you can use for simple documents or for creating Web pages.”
 Details
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| File name: | notepad.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Notepad |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe |
| Original name: | NOTEPAD.EXE.MUI |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Notepad.)
The Microsoft Office Activation Assistant (OAA) is a tool that allows customers who have the 2007 Microsoft Office system preinstalled on a new PC to buy a product key or get a key to activate a 60-da...
WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility that supports RAR, and ZIP and can unpack ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE and 7z compressed archives. Version 5 uses the RAR5 arc...
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of notepad.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Shell open commands
- txtfile
- scriptletfile
- inifile
All file variations of notepad.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
59.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
23.25% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
11.00% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.25% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.00% |
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| Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.75% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
0.75% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 49.87% of Notepad.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.48% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
18.29% |
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| ASUS |
13.71% |
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| Toshiba |
12.57% |
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| Acer |
11.24% |
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| Sony |
5.71% |
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| GIGABYTE |
2.86% |
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| Lenovo |
2.29% |
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| Alienware |
1.14% |
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| Samsung |
1.14% |
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| Sahara |
0.57% |
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