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There are several contenders for this title but HandyFile's excellent Find and Replace program is my favorite because of tiny size and no nonsense simplicity. It's also fast, has a simple but effective user interface and some nice features including support for regular expressions. It started life as a free product before going commercial however the free version 1.2 is still floating around and can be downloaded from a number of sites including this one [1].
If you are looking for something a bit more comprehensive then check out A.F.9 from Fauland [2]. It allows multiple search and replace operations in the one pass, can save search and replace operations for later re-use and has full drag and drop support.
Note that these programs are designed for use on text based files such as .txt and .html and must not be used on binary files or proprietary formats such as Microsoft Word. If you want to search and replace these kind of files then check out InfoRapid Search and Replace [3]. It's not as powerful as the best binary editors but with suitable add-ins it can handle certain Microsoft Office file types plus .rtf and .pdf.
[1] http://www.pcsupportadvisor.com/downloads/HFFRSetup.exe Freeware, all Windows versions, 361KB[2] http://www.fauland.com/af9.htm Freeware, all Windows versions, 992KB
[3] http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm Free for private use, 1.03MB
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