Preview is nice utility in windows vista, you can see preview your text file without open any software like notepad or WordPad. You can also see preview of doc, ppt & pdf file if Microsoft office and Acrobat reader are already installed on your computer.
If your preview option is not active first active it -Go to Organize, click layout and then select preview pane.

Now click your text file you can read it without open notepad. You can’t modify anything here because it is only file preview. You can also adjust preview pane size with mouse.

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