Secure Edit

Secure Edit is a text editor designed as a replacement for Windows Notepad, which puts emphasis on password protection, especially when you share your computer with multiple users. It's wrapped in a user-friendly interface and contains a few handy options, such as sorting modes, a search function, and secure deletion.

The installation procedure is a fast and easy job that shouldn't give you any trouble. As far as the GUI is concerned, it adopts a large window with a dark theme, which lets you create documents and save them as TXT or ECU files. However, you must assign a password prior to this step.

It's possible to undo your actions, use a basic search tool to quickly find particular pieces of text, enable or disable password pox locking, switch from single to dual pane mode, encrypt and decrypt files, as well as convert them to ZIP or BMP format.

You can rename files and add the .ecu extension, opt for a secure deletion method (three levels of complexity), allow the stopping of Windows Explorer, sort and trim text, edit the program's configuration file, set the process priority, make file associations, edit the Hosts file, clean the temporary files, wipe the free space on any selected drive to prevent third-parties from recovering personal data using specialized tools, and so on.

It features a bunch of advanced and powerful options dedicated not only to text editing, but also for security and file cleaning. No dialogs popped up in our tests and it didn't hang or crash. CPU and RAM consumption was minimal, so it didn't hamper system performance.

To conclude, Secure Edit offers interesting options for a text editor, backed by additional security and file options.