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'''Alternative method - manually take ownership of notepad.exe, remove, and replace it...''''''Works on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1''' Because of the new TrustedInstaller in Windows 7 8 and 8.1 you may have to take some extra steps to remove the old notepad.exe from your computer. Read and follow the steps in [Working Around TrustedInstaller] if you are having trouble claiming ownership of the notepad.exe file. Also, if you find that you are having difficulty finding notepad.exe then do a search for notepad.exe after you change the folder permissions to show hidden and system files.# Press CONTROL-R and type "explorer.exe" and press ENTER. # On the left pane locate and click "Local Disk (C:)" # Upper right of the file explorer window is a search box with the text inside "Search Local Disk (C:)"# Enter "notepad.exe" and search# Right click on each result that is an actual path on the C: drive. There are many results and not all are actual files, some are hive entries. We are only concerned with the files named notepad.exe which should be in the Windows folder.# For each occurrence of notepad.exe you will have to (1) manually take ownership away from TrustedInstaller, (2) change the permissions on the file to Full Control, and (3) delete the file. Do this one at a time for each occurrence of notepad.exe.# Now copy the replacement notepad.exe (metapad or whatever) into c:\windows and c:\windows\system32 This completes the alternative manual replacement method. It is a lot more work now to accomplish this thanks to TrustedInstaller which we trust to install only the crap Micro$oft forces on us!