The change can be made via the Registry Editor too, changing the relevant bit value. You can verify the change from your Registry Editor.
It is a free, open-sourced text editing software that provides the same features as the Notepad and then some. It has paved the way for text editors over quite some time now, in which period we have seen some very promising competitors of Notepad. txt file is configured to open directly in the Notepad. Notepad is the default text editor found in Windows computers.