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
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A powerful freeware alternative for Windows Add or Remove Programs, Revo Uninstaller is a great utility that offers the same functionality. Why is it better? It loads the list of your programs much faster, and allows you to do more than simply uninstall or remove programs.

I’ve used it and have been more than happy! This is one great alternative to Windows somewhat slow uninstaller!

Features of Revo Uninstaller

* Auto Start Manager – Stop programs from starting up with Windows! Why? To load up your boot speed of course!
* Windows Tool Manager – Useful tools and options for Windows
* Junk File Cleaner – Remove unnecessary files from your computer!
* Browsers History Cleaner – Remove that unwanted history, cookies, temporary files and more from IE, Opera, Firefox, and more.
* Office History Cleaner – Clean up Microsoft Office junk!
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Look no more! Below I’ll post the best freeware alternatives. I’ll be updating this whenever I find more great freeware alternatives!

Alternative to WinZip, PowerArchiver
ALZip Powerful compression utility. Supports zip, tar, tgz, 7z, and more.

Alternative to Microsoft Office
Open Office contains a word processor, spreadsheets, presentation, graphics, databases, and more! Compatible with Word Documents.

Alternative to Internet Explorer
FireFox allows extensions, themes, tabbed browsing, and more. Currently taking over.
Opera another great browser with tabbed browsing, themes, and other great features.

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