Forensic Review with Notepad++
Grandad's text editor For those of you using a Windows workstation for digital forensics, you've most likely found a better text editor than notepad. A good text editor can help make short work of parsing log files or RegRipper reports from Autopsy . If you haven't found one yet or are looking to make a change, I highly recommend Notepad++ . It's much more useful right out of the box than what you're likely to find shipping natively with Windows. Adding the Plugin Manager makes it very extensible, but there's a caveat... The Plugin Manager is itself a third party plugin and used to be included with the 32-bit version of Notepad++. Many who jumped on-board the 64-bit version when it was first released were a bit disappointed that it didn't come with a plugin manager at all. The inclusion never happened as far as I'm aware, however, and it has even been removed from the 32-bit version. Don't worry as there's nothing wrong with Program Ma