DesktopX

no, Something to make a program like a notepad replacement.

You can do that in DX

really? Well is there a lang that makes normal windows programs?

I think HTML was the easiest for me to learn...   But then again its not for Win32 programs.

no.

.NET -- Simple enough to find plenty of documentation and powerful enough to do pretty much anything in the Windows Environment.

ok, i will choose vb.net.

HTML is not a programming language, it's a markup language, which is very very different.  It's manually defining display format, not actually coding and compiling an application.

.NET is good and it gives you the options of both VB and C#, so depending on how your brain works, you've got some choice.  Personally, I'm OKish with C syntax code, but can't understand BASIC code to save my life.  It just doesn't click in my head.  However, Visual Basic is most often recommended as the best beginner language since it is more "plain english" to to speak.

.NET also lets you build both web applications (such as these fine forums you see here) as well as stand-alone Win32 apps.  Lots of versatility.

I stand corrected then.

Visual Basic is my choice.

I am trying to choose a language for making software on windows.

It's not usually the language (or more correctly the Syntax) that's the hard part to learn... it's usually getting your mind around all of the available functions i.e what they do, how to call them, which one to use and when etc, etc. This is in-turn dependant on the operating environment (in this case Windows).

The syntaxes between languages all have similar ways of achieving the same goal and I wouldn't say any one is 'easier' than another, just 'different'.

Visual Basic is pretty easy, if it's still around. That was the first language I learned.

I would say that VB.net is a great way to learn. Its logical, and straightforward, and has a powerful function library in the .net architecture.

I would say go with C. Large percent starts with C. Try to guess what VB compiler was compiled from.