Which is funny because that's a big part of what I do now (working in UX/UI).

First dev machine... Windows XP, Pentium 3 processor @ 800 MHz, 256 MB of RAM.... running two instances of vs2005 and an instance of firefox 2.x (the bloated generation) Your move.

I've tried using both simultaneously in the past, and NP++ surpasses NP2 in every aspect for any task that I've thrown at the two of them (including reading plaintext files).

I'd have to disagree on that. I tried using NP2 for quite some time and it just can't even come close to NP++.

You can also use Win+Space for that.

Truer words were probably said, but this is pretty accurate :)

40" CRT and it takes about three people to move it.

You probably have the display file names only checkbox checked