Windows 10 20H1 branch brings changes to Paint and WordPad: they will become optional and can be removed

There are still weeks left for Windows 10 in the 20H1 branch to become a reality. A time that Microsoft will take advantage of to give the final touches to the compilation that must reach the market and try to correct the errors that are still present by launching the corresponding Builds in the Windows Insider Program.

And it is that while they have already started testing builds for the October update, the 20H2 branch, we are learning some details Windows 10 2004.A few days ago we reviewed some of the novelties that would appear with said update and now we also know that two classic Windows utilities will come as optional: we are talking about Paint and WordPad.

Paint and WordPad, optional

And it is almost certain that there will be no user who has managed a Windows computer at some time in his life and who has not used one of these two applications. Either for a small touch up on a photo or to manage a screenshot with Paint or copy or take a note with WordPad , these two functions are classics.

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Paint was one of the applications that came by default at the launch of Windows 1.0 in 1985, becoming one of the first applications graphic editing. Since then, it has remained in all versions of Windows to this day.For its part, WordPad, something like a version of Microsoft Word but light and more powerful than Notepad, is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards."

Windows 10 in the 2004 version will have a good number of new features and one of them is the possibility that applications that previously came as default to open some documents and files, cases of Paint and WordPad, they will become optional.

Testing Build 19041, which is rumored to be a candidate for RTM, Windows Latest colleagues have seen how WordPad and Paint are two functions that will count as optional and not default, just like than Windows Media Player.

This assumes that the user, once Windows 10 is installed on the 20H1 branch, will have the power to disable these functionsIt does not mean that Paint or WordPad will disappear from Windows 10, just that starting with the spring update they can be disabled and no trace of them will remain in the Start menu and other locations.

Both Microsoft Paint (6.68 MB) and WordPad (6.25 MB) take up very little space, so uninstalling them is not an interesting optionin relation to occupied storage compared to the possibilities they offer. The difference is that now, these appear in the list of optional features of Windows 10, of utilities that are installed by default and that can be deleted.

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Of course, to achieve this, once the steps have been carried out, it is necessary to reboot the system so that both applications disappear and stop to offer any trace in Windows, both in the Start Menu>"

Via | Windows Latest