Windows 11's new Notepad is apparently slower than the original Win32 app

Microsoft has apparently made the updated Notepad available to all Windows 11 users after testing it with a limited group of users. The new Notepad complements the operating system's refreshed look. Similar to Paint and other Office apps, it has been updated with a Fluent Design makeover, bringing rounded corners to many areas.

Notepad also has dark mode compatibility and looks great on Windows 11. It even offers new fonts for buttons, menus, and more. This is Notepad's most significant update in years, as the app's overall interface has remained the same for years.

Notepad has always been a simple and fast text editing application for Windows, but it is apparently slower than usual on Windows 11. Several Feedback Hub posts have highlighted performance issues with the Notepad app, including a bug where vertical scrolling doesn't feel smooth.

"The vertical scroll animation in Notepad 11 feels wrong and inconsistent with other Windows applications (Explorer has no animation at all, just scrolls by the configured number of lines, and settings and edges scroll very quickly). Windows 11 11 Notepad on "Scrolls by the configured number of lines, but very slowly. It either doesn't animate at all or animates faster," noted one affected user.

Another problem is that Notepad cannot process the text quickly when you paste up to 500,00 lines of text from an application like Microsoft Excel.

One of the users noted that Notepad's loading time was "extremely slow and literally never ends." "Also, pasting text copied from Notepad itself is also very slow. It is very fast in the Win32 version".

If you search for "notepad" you can find similar reports in the Feedback Center.

Thankfully, Microsoft has admitted that Notepad does have performance issues and it is being fixed in the next update being tested. According to Microsoft officials, the Notepad update brings additional performance improvements when you scroll through very large files or replace large amounts of text.

For example, Notepad will no longer run slowly if you copy text from a Word document and paste it into Notepad and then try to scroll. Microsoft is also improving accessibility for screen readers, text scaling, and more. The update now leverages assistive technologies already in the operating system.

Microsoft has also updated Notepad to support native ARM64, so performance is now significantly better on ARM64 devices in version 11.2204.

You'll see faster, better performance when you get updates to Notepad.

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