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Quickly preview files in Windows

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For those times you want to quickly check the content of a file without waiting for an app to load, there are a few options. If it’s an image file, you can, of course, use Windows 10’s built-in thumbnails and preview pane. The preview pane also works if you want to look at a PDF. However, it comes up short when you want to preview text files.

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