Best Free Software for Windows

Notepad Replacement

NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. You can write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional.

Notepad++ is a free source code editor, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project is based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program).

Crimson Editor is a professional source code editor for Windows. This program is not only fast in loading time, but also small in size (so small that it can be copied in one floppy disk). While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl and Java.

PSPad is an editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems. It is useful for people who work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker, and, of course, for those who create web pages - as a web authoring editor.

EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor. EditPad Lite works with Windows NT4, 98, 2000, ME, XP and Vista.

ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers.

Programmer’s Notepad the free, open source, text editor with special features for coders.