There are situations where you need to open plain-text files having an unknown or unregistered file extension using Notepad. By default, no file association exists for extension-less files and files with unknown extension in Windows. So, to open those files, you use the Open With option and select Notepad from the list.
And, it becomes even more difficult if Notepad is not readily available in the “Open with” sub-menu, in which case you need to browse to select Notepad.exe in the Windows folder every time. Adding the Open with Notepad option in the context menu (for all files) makes the job easy. It would save you a couple of mouse clicks every time.Read more
