I used notepad for the longest, but have since come to use editpad lite as my favorite. Notepad would get a bit sluggish on my when working with large files, and also I like some of the multiple document features that come with editpad lite, which make it easy to edit multiple files at one time. For example, say I have 20 files I need to edit, maybe change the version number to 4.0 from a higher version to avoid the common error message. No prob, I just do a search and replace across all open documents and it is done in a snap. It has features like this that make it, to me, more useful over notepad. :O)