Everything was fine yesterday. But today, when I open files with notepad, they open in a separate icon despite Notepad being pinned on the Taskbar. What's more is that hovering on the taskbar icon shows the name of another file and the icon is also not there. What could be the problem?
The most annoying, surprising, strange thing is that the text files themselves seem to be behaving like text editors.
Process Explorer:
It seems the correct file but there's no icon. I think it's corrupt. I ran sfc /scannow
but that does nothing. It always says something like this:
Found corrupt files But can't repair.
TXT
files. We'll need more details to effectively answer your question. A screenshot of this new icon that's supposedly not Notepad would be a start.