I remember trying it out at one point and really liking it but I think I gave up when I either struggled to figure out how to have it replace Notepad on Windows or I found the steps and I was too lazy to go through with it.

Now, I just read a post on Omar’s blog about Notepad2 again and he listed off the four simple steps to take to do what’s needed to really have it replace the old Notepad on Vista. He actually found out about it from another blog (here’s that post too). Either one has the steps and you can download Notepad2 from here too (note there’s a new version out).

It’s really nice as it has syntax coloring/formatting for many common formats from code to html to things like .ini files. For a developer especially, it’s a really nice replacement for the basic but much used Notepad.