An excellent alternative to Notepad, Programmer’s Notepad offers a versatile programming environment.

Programmer’s Notepad Features

Programmer’s Notepad allows you to create multiple file types and provides syntax highlighting for a great variety of languages such as C++, PHP, HTML, and so much more. You can also create and manage projects. You can open multiple files in Programmer’s Notepad and they’ll appear as tabs. You can create coding templates, create themes, tags, scripts, and so much more.

Programmer’s Notepad Features
Programmer’s Notepad Screenshots

This is a great alternative to Windows Notepad as it comes bundled with a lot of neat features any programmer would enjoy. I personally use this for light programming projects such as HTML, CSS, and PHP and believe it’s great. It’s doesn’t take a lot of resources so its fast. It’s also free, did I mention that?