Back in 2000 when I started programming for The True Value Company I was introduced to an powerful but light weight editor called EditPlus. When ever I was working at an organization where I required the use of EditPlus it was always purchased but for my personal use I never paid for it. It’s reason like this that the developer of EditPlus has an “optional” patch that, unknowingly to me, disallows the use of EditPlus after the evaluation period. I downloaded and installed it thinking I was applying a possible security patch as it’s available without a description or purpose (sneeky bastard). Anyway, one of the few times I thanked Microsoft because the restore feature un-applied (not sure that’s proper english) the patch! Now I can use EditPlus forever and ever and ever… for free!

EditPlus Beyond Evaluation Period