Good old WordPad brought into the 21st century. MS quietly removed the executable from Win11 24H2 but
handed over the keys as MIT licensed open source. There are several re-interpretations of this tool - search github for them if interested.

Main aspects and changes from the original:

• Windows 11 and later.
• Build (and debug) with Visual Studio.
• x64 static portable executable in install directory.
• No registry access, persistence to ini file.
• Remove all vestiges of outdated MFC help. This may be useful: http://hs.windows.microsoft.com/hhweb/content/m-en-us/p-6.2/id-7479c387-8dc4-40b6-9506-cc7a58c61f0a/.

• Build it yourself using VS 2022+ with the C++ (+ MFC) workload.
• The project baseline is a copy (not fork) of WordPad OG.
• If you want all the original registry stuff back, uncomment _REGISTER_APP in framework.h.
• Historical cruft addressed:
  • Splash gone, replaced with about - includes license.
  • Removed support for Word6 and Write files.
  • Reorganize convoluted includes.
  • Remove string and resource clutter.
  • Simplify doc type management.
  • General code cleanup. Too many cooks in this broth. Still a lot of entangled objects.