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Win32Pad

Win32Pad is a replacement for the default Windows notepad with a programmer in mind. It offers several enhancements, including unlimited file size, line numbers, recent file list, file change notifi ...

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Apr 08, 2007
For version:
1.5.10.2

All this in 70 k?

Interface: 4
Features: 4
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

Win32Pad's developer deserves some kind of achievement award! Unless one wants and needs *significantly* more features and is willing to "pay" for them with more resource use and a lot more intrusiveness (context-menu items, entries throughout the registry, etc.), this text editor more than suffices. It's a great replacement for NotePad, and even on a small pen drive you'll hardly notice it's there... till it does what you want it to do.

Review by: D_Spider (28)
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Jul 30, 2006
For version:
1.5.10.1

Must have software

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

When I get a new PC there are a number of applications that I immediately load. Win32Pad is one of those applications. I consider this to be 'must have' software.

Review by: OzBrad (23)
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Jan 24, 2006
For version:
1.5.9.1

Absolutely terrific. now my main text editor

Interface: 5
Features: 4
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

Far more than a 'Notepad' or ' WordPad' replacement. I use it for nearly all of my word processing needs. Win32Pad' is also useful for for programming and batch file editing. I use a voice dictation program and it works very well with that application, which is unusual. When you install, be sure to select the options 'open with' in the context menu and also ' make this my Notepad replacement'. Because this program supports so many different formats, I end up using 'open with Win32Pad' many times each day. I can't recommend this program enough. After installation, check out the options menu. There are nice controls which may not be obvious. For heavy-duty programming and scripting, some other programs with multiple open, tabbed files has advantages. But for daily use, Win32Pad is the best and easiest to work with.

Review by: CharlesK (12)
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Jan 03, 2005
For version:
1.5.4

This one wins it.

Interface: 5
Features: 5
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

For years I have tried various versions of Notpad replacements, and have never been happy with any. One even took over my notepad and even after some renaming, notepad never worked right. This program, Win32Pad, is easy to use and easy to configure. I have placed it in my C:windows directory and renamed my notepad as "notepad.old" and in its stead placed win32pad but had to rename it to "notepad.exe" and I added to the same directory all the accompanying zipped files such as the help file, the ini file and gid file. Basically, I extracted the files from win32pad into the C:windows folder so when it needs to start or get a help file, it will know where to find it. I highly recommend this program to anyone seeking a well designed alternative to Notepad.exe. Thanks to the developer for making it available and FREE.

Review by: Tony_K (52)
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Nov 30, 2004
For version:
1.5.4

Notepad on steroids.

Interface: 5
Features: 3
Ease of use: 5
Value: 5
Overall:

This works well as a more configurable, powerful version of notepad, but if you are looking for a notepad replacement that does things like syntax highlighting, I would look elsewhere.

Review by: Netaku (8)
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