Replace the standard Notepad for the more versatile Notepad++

The standard Windows Notepad is not only a handy tool for copying and pasting, it can also be incredibly useful for editing text documents and even web page code. the application benefits from being small and enables you to quickly and easily open it up and edit documents on the fly, with the smallest amount of effort. Unfortunately, one downside to the standard Windows Notepad is that it still lacks certain useful features, which is all to evident when viewing and editing certain types of  programming code.  

Notepad++ 5.7.0 is a versatile alternative to the standard Windows tool that ships with many useful and interesting features. These features include a file browser, spell checker and a function list as well as colour coding. If you have the relevant skills you can even use it to completely replace the standard Notepad, after a little editing of your Windows Registry.

Notepad++ 5.7.0 link.