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30 June 2025

Windows Notepad - Application Hive Markdown Setting

by ogmini

With the introduction of Markdown support we have a new setting in the settings.dat file to enable/disable the Formatting options. Using Registry Explorer we can take a look and see it:

Using 010 Editor and the template.

KeyName	Type	Notes
Formatting Enabled	0x5f5e10b	0 = Off / 1 = On

More to come as I get more time to dig in.

tags: #research #windows-notepad