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This is actually a huge deal because if others are anything like me, I paste into the run dialog to strip text formatting, before copying it elsewhere. Haven't

This is actually a huge deal because if others are anything like me, I paste into the run dialog to strip text formatting, before copying it elsewhere. Haven't used Windows in a decade so not sure if there's a better way now.

chinathrow 5y ago
Ctrl-Shift-v in many applications e.g. Word.
- Mesmoria 5y ago
  In many places, but not word (sadly).
  - kyriakos 5y ago
    word its CTRL-V then CTRL-T
farkanoid 5y ago
It makes me happy that others do this too, I make use of pretty much any plaintext field in proximity to strip formatting
bojan 5y ago
I just use Notepad for that.
- gruez 5y ago
  notepad pros: * doesn't send your text to the botnet * works with multiline text cons: * isn't 2 keys (win-R) away. I personally had to type win + N + O + T + E + P until it showed up, then hit enter.
  - jenny91 5y ago
    The mothership only got "notep" :/
    - gnu8 5y ago
      Not great because when they see how many people use Notepad, they're going to replace it with a piece of shit like they did with the snipping tool and Freecell.
  - contravariant 5y ago
    That con is why I've used Authotkey to bind notepad to win-N.
  - temac 5y ago
    > notepad pros: > * doesn't send your text to the botnet hm, yet? And are we even sure about that? Who expect that what you type in the Run dialog being spied on and sent to MS? Is this even documented anywhere? At this point I'm considering all MS softwares have become mainly hardcore spyware, with maybe some secondary legacy functions remaining (but in lots of cases being stripped slowly, while getting more bloated at the same time).
    - crummy 5y ago
      probably you can be confident with a copy of wireshark
      - temac 5y ago
        Unless I do that all day, not really (and then I would need to configure tons of things to block the traffic), and things are getting worse and worse. I just received an update from Dell of Intel integrated graphics driver and it seems they phone home (to Intel, most probably, I doubt Dell receives a special version that send to Dell instead of to Intel whatever they thought it would be interesting to spy on), although I'm not sure the original ones did so, nor if I have even been warned that they do. Probably illegal under GDPR laws, but like that kind of company gives a shit... I will just abandon Windows, it's not worth it anymore. Win 11 incompatible with most not-so-old PCs will be a good occasion.
- Mindless2112 5y ago
  In case you're feeling left out in Notepad, you can right-click › "Search with Bing..."
  - bojan 5y ago
    Only for selected text.
userbinator 5y ago
I've always used a Notepad, but now I wonder whether that also phones home in the newer versions of Windows...
- not1ofU 5y ago
  Notepad ++ - its the beesknees
NKosmatos 5y ago
I use the address bar of the browser to quickly strip formatting :-)
- strombofulous 5y ago
  FYI, chrome/edge have similar behavior in their omnibox. If you ever find the time, open up fiddler and keep it visible on a second monitor while you browse. You'll be amazed by how much data is sent back to microsoft/Google. I'm not sure if other chromium browsers also do this, I know ungoogled chromium doesn't.
  - thrashh 5y ago
    Shouldn’t be surprising if autocomplete results appear immediately after typing in the box. They didn’t magically appear from thin air for sure.
- im3w1l 5y ago
  At least the address bar lets you know it gets uploaded by displaying search autocompletes
m463 5y ago
"Haven't used Windows in a decade so not sure if there's a better way now." no, not running windows in a decade is still the better way. only sort of joking. I run windows 7 and haven't upgraded.
- eptcyka 5y ago
  Windows 7 is horribly insecure now. Please reconsider.
  - gruez 5y ago
    Normally yes, but you can pirate the extended support updates, which last until 2023.
  - userbinator 5y ago
    FUD. MS gathers more information about you than ever.
    - eptcyka 5y ago
      Both of those statements can be true.
      - userbinator 5y ago
        It's downright fearmongering --- classic MS-style --- to say something is "horribly insecure" when it has has been around for over a decade and all the major bugs have already been found. Nevermind the fact that everyone is almost always behind a NAT and are basically unreachable for attackers to exploit remotely. If anything, the newer versions of Windows are "horribly inescure" because they contain so many "unknown unknowns". But that wouldn't fit the narrative MS wants to propagate...
        kube-system 5y ago
        Plenty of new CVEs are in code that has been around for decades. For an example recently in the news: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34527 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
banana_giraffe 5y ago
No built in better way I know of, but I have ; Type in the clipboard ^!v:: MyClip = %clipboard% StringReplace, MyClip, MyClip, `r, , All SendRaw %MyClip% return in my AutoHotkey script for a long time now to let me hit Ctrl-Alt-V and have it type in the text of whatever's in the clipboard. (Type instead of paste to get around random situations where the clipboard won't do what I want)
moogly 5y ago
https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
babypuncher 5y ago
It's probably false, as others in this thread are struggling to validate this Twitter user's claims.
not1ofU 5y ago
CTLR + Shift + v You're welcome ;-)
- not1ofU 5y ago
  I wish I could edit this, because something even better I had forgotten about (since I use Mac for work these days, and I wish there was alternative to this in Mac) best ever - ClCl [0] https://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html https://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html It basically a clipboard manager, but the best one Ive ever used. Can create templates, use Alt+v to paste from list.Super intuitive. Its better than I am describing for sure, and its free. (cannot find equivelant for Mac)
Bluecobra 5y ago
Preserving text formatting is probably one of most useless features I have to workaround with on an almost daily basis by using Notepad. It makes me wonder how much productivity was lost vs. gained globally by this “feature”.

chinathrow 5y ago

Ctrl-Shift-v in many applications e.g. Word.

Mesmoria 5y ago
In many places, but not word (sadly).
- kyriakos 5y ago
  word its CTRL-V then CTRL-T

farkanoid 5y ago

It makes me happy that others do this too, I make use of pretty much any plaintext field in proximity to strip formatting

bojan 5y ago

I just use Notepad for that.

gruez 5y ago
notepad pros: * doesn't send your text to the botnet * works with multiline text cons: * isn't 2 keys (win-R) away. I personally had to type win + N + O + T + E + P until it showed up, then hit enter.
- jenny91 5y ago
  The mothership only got "notep" :/
  - gnu8 5y ago
    Not great because when they see how many people use Notepad, they're going to replace it with a piece of shit like they did with the snipping tool and Freecell.
- contravariant 5y ago
  That con is why I've used Authotkey to bind notepad to win-N.
- temac 5y ago
  > notepad pros: > * doesn't send your text to the botnet hm, yet? And are we even sure about that? Who expect that what you type in the Run dialog being spied on and sent to MS? Is this even documented anywhere? At this point I'm considering all MS softwares have become mainly hardcore spyware, with maybe some secondary legacy functions remaining (but in lots of cases being stripped slowly, while getting more bloated at the same time).
  - crummy 5y ago
    probably you can be confident with a copy of wireshark
    - temac 5y ago
      Unless I do that all day, not really (and then I would need to configure tons of things to block the traffic), and things are getting worse and worse. I just received an update from Dell of Intel integrated graphics driver and it seems they phone home (to Intel, most probably, I doubt Dell receives a special version that send to Dell instead of to Intel whatever they thought it would be interesting to spy on), although I'm not sure the original ones did so, nor if I have even been warned that they do. Probably illegal under GDPR laws, but like that kind of company gives a shit... I will just abandon Windows, it's not worth it anymore. Win 11 incompatible with most not-so-old PCs will be a good occasion.
Mindless2112 5y ago
In case you're feeling left out in Notepad, you can right-click › "Search with Bing..."
- bojan 5y ago
  Only for selected text.

userbinator 5y ago

I've always used a Notepad, but now I wonder whether that also phones home in the newer versions of Windows...

not1ofU 5y ago
Notepad ++ - its the beesknees

NKosmatos 5y ago

I use the address bar of the browser to quickly strip formatting :-)

strombofulous 5y ago
FYI, chrome/edge have similar behavior in their omnibox. If you ever find the time, open up fiddler and keep it visible on a second monitor while you browse. You'll be amazed by how much data is sent back to microsoft/Google. I'm not sure if other chromium browsers also do this, I know ungoogled chromium doesn't.
- thrashh 5y ago
  Shouldn’t be surprising if autocomplete results appear immediately after typing in the box. They didn’t magically appear from thin air for sure.
im3w1l 5y ago
At least the address bar lets you know it gets uploaded by displaying search autocompletes

m463 5y ago

"Haven't used Windows in a decade so not sure if there's a better way now." no, not running windows in a decade is still the better way. only sort of joking. I run windows 7 and haven't upgraded.

eptcyka 5y ago
Windows 7 is horribly insecure now. Please reconsider.
- gruez 5y ago
  Normally yes, but you can pirate the extended support updates, which last until 2023.
- userbinator 5y ago
  FUD. MS gathers more information about you than ever.
  - eptcyka 5y ago
    Both of those statements can be true.
    - userbinator 5y ago
      It's downright fearmongering --- classic MS-style --- to say something is "horribly insecure" when it has has been around for over a decade and all the major bugs have already been found. Nevermind the fact that everyone is almost always behind a NAT and are basically unreachable for attackers to exploit remotely. If anything, the newer versions of Windows are "horribly inescure" because they contain so many "unknown unknowns". But that wouldn't fit the narrative MS wants to propagate...
      - kube-system 5y ago
        Plenty of new CVEs are in code that has been around for decades. For an example recently in the news: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34527 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...

banana_giraffe 5y ago

No built in better way I know of, but I have ; Type in the clipboard ^!v:: MyClip = %clipboard% StringReplace, MyClip, MyClip, `r, , All SendRaw %MyClip% return in my AutoHotkey script for a long time now to let me hit Ctrl-Alt-V and have it type in the text of whatever's in the clipboard. (Type instead of paste to get around random situations where the clipboard won't do what I want)

moogly 5y ago

https://stevemiller.net/puretext/ https://stevemiller.net/puretext/

babypuncher 5y ago

It's probably false, as others in this thread are struggling to validate this Twitter user's claims.

not1ofU 5y ago

CTLR + Shift + v You're welcome ;-)

not1ofU 5y ago
I wish I could edit this, because something even better I had forgotten about (since I use Mac for work these days, and I wish there was alternative to this in Mac) best ever - ClCl [0] https://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html https://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html It basically a clipboard manager, but the best one Ive ever used. Can create templates, use Alt+v to paste from list.Super intuitive. Its better than I am describing for sure, and its free. (cannot find equivelant for Mac)

Bluecobra 5y ago

Preserving text formatting is probably one of most useless features I have to workaround with on an almost daily basis by using Notepad. It makes me wonder how much productivity was lost vs. gained globally by this “feature”.