Notepad is the worst program in the history of mankind. Anything is better. Except maybe Wordpad. Download.com has tons of editors designed to be as simple as Notepad, but actually WORK. Search for "notepad replacement" and you'll probably get tons. If you're editing source code, you'd really do well to get an editor that supports things programmers need, like syntax highlighting and smart-indenting and line numbering and all kinds of stuff. Textpad is great for that if you're in Windoze. Vim is good too, but requires about a year to learn it, and gvim for Windoze isn't as good as the Linux versions unfortunately.