ShadyTXT has been designed as a vastly superior alternative to Microsoft Notepad.
ShadyTXT has all of the features you want, and none of the features you dont want.
Features include: customizable text/background colors, URL highlighting/visiting, automatic check for updates, free and open source!
Key features
* Customizable text/background colors
* URL highlighting/visiting
* Always on Top option
* Printing options
* Unicode support
* Load/Save using various encodings
* Automatic check for updates

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this text editor software.