Notepad is the default Windows text editor that appear the first time since until now almost no extra features. Notepad is only suitable for writing notes "light" or a simple text.
If you need a text editor with more capabilities such as syntax Highlighting, multi-document, search and replace, etc. then please select your replacement notepad 5 below.
1. Notepad + +

Notepad + + is a text editor and a free source code editor that has a feature quite a lot. Freeware is suitable for you who need a text editor with the ability.
Features:
* Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG *
* User Defined Syntax Highlighting
* Auto-completion
* Multi-Document
* Multi-View
* Regular Expression Search / Replace supported
* Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
* Dynamic position of Views
* File Status Auto-detection
* Zoom in and zoom out
* Multi-Language environment supported
* Bookmark
* Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
* Macro recording and playback
2. PSPad

PSPad is a text editor for programming. Currently PSPad support for programming languages C + +, Cobol, MS-Dos batch, CSS, Forth, Fortran, Foxpro, HTML, XHTML, INI, Inno Setup, Java, JavaScript, KixStart, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SQL, tcl / TK, Unix ShellScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, x86 assembler, and more than 120 other languages.
3. NoteTab Light

NoteTab Light has the following features:
* Easy to use, reliable, fast, and very flexible.
* Open, Navigate and edit many documents at once, even huge files.
* AutoCorrect / Auto-replace mode, THESAURUS, and spell checking with 13 language dictionaries available.
* Formatting and conversion commands Galore: text case, alignment, strip tags, convert to HTML, unquote e-mails, and much more. Can automatically capture and save the text sent to the clipboard from any application.
* Supports many file formats: DOS, MAC, UNIX, ANSI, ASCII, Unicode and EBCDIC.
* Calculates the results of mathematical expressions, and inserts them in your text.
* Includes's regular expression engine based on PCRE (Perl 5 compatible) for wildcard searches and replacements.
* Clipbook Powerful tool makes it easy to access handy macro functions and boilerplate text.
* Programmable - add your own custom commands using an easy-to-learn, full-featured scripting language.
4. Notepad2

Notepad2 is a text editor that is small and lightweight with features syntax Highlighting. This software you can run directly without having to install it first.
5. EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a text editor with many advantages compared to Notepad, can be run on Windows NT4 operating system, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista.
If you need a text editor with more capabilities such as syntax Highlighting, multi-document, search and replace, etc. then please select your replacement notepad 5 below.
1. Notepad + +

Notepad + + is a text editor and a free source code editor that has a feature quite a lot. Freeware is suitable for you who need a text editor with the ability.
Features:
* Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
WYSIWYG *
* User Defined Syntax Highlighting
* Auto-completion
* Multi-Document
* Multi-View
* Regular Expression Search / Replace supported
* Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
* Dynamic position of Views
* File Status Auto-detection
* Zoom in and zoom out
* Multi-Language environment supported
* Bookmark
* Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
* Macro recording and playback
2. PSPad

PSPad is a text editor for programming. Currently PSPad support for programming languages C + +, Cobol, MS-Dos batch, CSS, Forth, Fortran, Foxpro, HTML, XHTML, INI, Inno Setup, Java, JavaScript, KixStart, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SQL, tcl / TK, Unix ShellScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, x86 assembler, and more than 120 other languages.
3. NoteTab Light

NoteTab Light has the following features:
* Easy to use, reliable, fast, and very flexible.
* Open, Navigate and edit many documents at once, even huge files.
* AutoCorrect / Auto-replace mode, THESAURUS, and spell checking with 13 language dictionaries available.
* Formatting and conversion commands Galore: text case, alignment, strip tags, convert to HTML, unquote e-mails, and much more. Can automatically capture and save the text sent to the clipboard from any application.
* Supports many file formats: DOS, MAC, UNIX, ANSI, ASCII, Unicode and EBCDIC.
* Calculates the results of mathematical expressions, and inserts them in your text.
* Includes's regular expression engine based on PCRE (Perl 5 compatible) for wildcard searches and replacements.
* Clipbook Powerful tool makes it easy to access handy macro functions and boilerplate text.
* Programmable - add your own custom commands using an easy-to-learn, full-featured scripting language.
4. Notepad2

Notepad2 is a text editor that is small and lightweight with features syntax Highlighting. This software you can run directly without having to install it first.
5. EditPad Lite

EditPad Lite is a text editor with many advantages compared to Notepad, can be run on Windows NT4 operating system, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista.