BDV Notepad

"The best of Notepad replacement and it's a freeware. Believe me."

bellgamin, FileForum user

"BDV Notepad provides an amazing number of features coupled with extremely low impact on system resources. It is rock steady, even on WinME (& that's saying a lot), plus it loads in the blink of an eye. POWER in a small package!"

DunbarKC, FileForum user

Free Windows Notepad Replacement

"Do not do for computer
what it should do for you."

It is comfortable text editor, Windows Notepad replacement. In this program are combined: extended functionality, comfortable interface, flexible adjustment and all of this is absolutely free-of-charge! Program can work with files of any size, supports shortcuts, multilevel Undo/Redo, autosaving, URL-autodetection and start. It has customizable multilanguage interface, improved printing engine and many additional opportunities.

The main difference and advantage of this program is its universality. It is not a tool for programming or Web-design only. This program is necessary for everyone, who types and edits the text. The BDV Notepad has been specially developed as a replacement for standard Windows Notepad.

In other words: just try it and you will love it!

Key Features:

• Intuitive, and easy to configure interface, themes support;
• Fast load and edit text files of any size;
• Works without installation;
• Can be used from floppy, CD or USB drive;
• Shortcuts;
• Auto save;
• Unlimited Undo/Redo;
• URL autodetect and start;
• Display of special characters;
• Case changes;
• UNICODE support;
• Lines sorting;
• Stay-on-Top feature;
• Character filters;
• Extended find-and-replace options;
• Improved printing engine;
• Automatic replacement of standard Notepad;
• Insert characters/colours/file names/etc...;
• Win-DOS-KOI8 codepage convertion with the user codepages support;
• Multi-lingual interface, editing or creating new language files.

Coming Soon:

• Page headers/footers;
• Saving non-text files (.exe, .jpg etc).

Do you like the BDV Notepad and need an additional function in it? Just contact us.

Note for Windows 95 users:

No less than the RichEdit 2.0 library is required for the above functions to operate properly. If necessary, the RichEdit 3.0 (324 Kb) library may be loaded from our site.

How To Replace Windows Notepad

Automatic replacement of standard Notepad:
If you use the BDV Notepad you do not need to remove the standard Windows Notepad. Our program can be easily integrated in Windows as the default editor for any kinds of files. To do so, launch the BDV Notepad, open the Settings panel, and proceed to the Associations tab. Here you can select file types for opening with BDV Notepad instead of a standard Windows Notepad.

But if you definitely want to replace your Notepad with improved BDV Notepad, do the following easy steps:

• Restart your computer in a Safe Mode (only if you use Windows 2000/XP);
• Find the file Notepad.exe in a Windows folder (usually C:\Windows), and rename it — you may need it later;
• Copy all needed files of the BDV Notepad in a Windows folder (e.g. Notepad.exe, English.lng, Deutsch.lng, KOI8R.cp);
• Restart your computer in a Normal Mode.

After this simple procedure all text files will be opened in our Notepad replacement instead of a standard Windows Notepad.

Additional Codepage And Language Files

You can download additional language and codepage files for our Notepad replacement. You can send us your versions of these files as well.