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Yet another Notepad replacement...
Notepad2 is a FANTASTIC app, improving greatly the original Notepad shipped with Windows! Notepad2 follows the basic Notepad principle, keeping it small, fast, without frills, but it improves it greatly! Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting.
This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.
Notepad2 works on Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2k and XP. It is written by Florian Balmer
Features
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Customizable syntax highlighting:
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HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI
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C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS
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INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF
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Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2
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Basic regular expression search and replace
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Useful word, line and block editing shortcuts
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Rectangular selection (Alt+Mouse)
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Brace matching, auto indent, long line marker, zoom functions
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Support for Unicode, UTF-8, Unix and Mac text files
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Open shell links
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Mostly adjustable
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Auto indentation
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Bracket matching
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Encoding conversion between ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 formats
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Multiple undo/redo; rectangular block selection
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Newline conversion, between DOS (CR/LF), Unix (LF) and Mac (CR) formats
Click screenshots for full-size.
Download
notepad2
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Notepad2 [242 kb]
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Notepad2 Source Code [165 kb]
How to Replace notepad with notepad2 in Vista ?
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First you need to download notepad2 from here
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First you need to Rename Notepad2.exe to notepad.exe.
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Find c:\windows\notepad.exe and c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe and set the owner to ‘Administrators’, and grant Administrators full control.
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Using Windows Explorer, drag and drop the renamed notepad2.exe to c:\windows and c:\windows\system32.
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Optional replace the permissions on the new notepad.exe to Read & Execute and Read.
