Beware that windows by default saves tabs of previously opened documents in notepad now.

I had found all sorts of data that would have been a big security risk had anyone found it of text files I thought were deleted just sitting there saved in tabs when I opened notepad. For some reason I had not noticed these tabs because I simply didn't expect this behavior out of notepad. This is some sort of new session save "feature" that saves independent copies of your text files that you open.

https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-notepad-is-adding-automatic-file-saving/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/16z7iuf/how_do_we_disable_the_new_autosave_feature_of/

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