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Windows Wordpad
I absolutely hate what Microsoft did to Windows Wordpad (wordpad.exe) in Windows 7. So I decided to try something to get the old Vista Version back. I use it a lot for coding HTML/CSS in the "Text Document" mode.
I installed WinBubbles 1.76 and used it to add "Take Ownership Of File" and "Take Ownership Of Folder" to Windows 7 Windows Explorer's right-click Context menu.
Then I took ownership of the C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories folder. In there are "en-US" folder, wordpad.exe, and wordpadfilter.dll. I added a "1" on to the left-end of their names "1en-US" etc. so the computer couldn't find them.
I plugged in a Flash Drive into my Vista computer and went to C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories and copied "en-US" folder and wordpad.exe to the Flash drive. I plugged the Flash Drive into my Windows 7 64-bit computer and copied those files into C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories
I was overjoyed to find out that this worked great. If I ever need to restore the original Windows 7 Wordpad I can just reverse this process.
After you restart your computer the Windows 7 Wordpad icon will be replaced by the icon of the Vista version.