AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.

Windows 11 and popular Microsoft apps include spell checker and autocorrect features that help you proof your writing, and in this guide, I'll outline steps to enable and configure them.

Microsoft continues to add new features to the Windows Notepad, today announcing a preview release with built-in spellchecking and an autocorrect feature.

But starting with Windows 11 Notepad version 11.2405.13.0 and forward, it seems the testing is done and spell check is now a built-in feature for the app for everyone.

New prompts to subscribe to Microsoft 365 have started popping up when trying to use Notepad's AI features, leading to confusion.

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983.