Ah, finally a good and free Programmer's Editor for Windows - Crimson Editor.

1. Quick and clean "Find In Files" feature to replace the useless "Search" in Windows
2. Syntax Highlighting for almost all types of Files
3. Handy utilites - Upper case to Lower casse conversion and vice-versa
4. Column mode selection
5. Automatic reload of files modified from outside the Editor while it's being viewed - useful for reading server Log files
   

...and more