The TextPad application of Helios Software Solutions consists of an executable file of the same name, the textpad.exe file. TextPad is similar to Microsoft Word and Notepad. However, TextPad has its unique characteristics and text.exe executes these characteristics to help users do programming activities. The application only requires minimal space in the hard drive. However, its main features include several activities which users can perform. Text.exe enables the software to maintain block indents, to perform automatic code indentation, regular expression based search and replace, macro recording to transform complex texts and data processing and syntax highlighting, to call external programs, to provide large file support, clip libraries, clipboard history and block select mode, to help edit multiple files, to synchronize scrolling of files, and to bookmark lines to enable user to copy lines and paste them on another file. TextPad is a text editor used to edit web pages and as a programming IDE.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. textpad.exe. is used by TextPad, If you shut down textpad.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop textpad.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is TextPad, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed textpad.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as TextPad, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if textpad.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that textpad.exe, belongs to, in this case TextPad