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7-zip has already been mentioned, but I want to mention Notepad++. It's not as featureful as a full-on IDE or most modern extensible text editors, but it's fast and has a simple classic UI. When I just want to edit a basic text file I tend to use N++, as long as I'm on Windows and I don't want to boot up VSCode, let alone a full IDE.

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I use N++ everyday and do love it; though I recently found out that it completely freezes trying to open modest sized single-line json (couple MB), which made me sad.

Open it as plain text. It does the same thing trying to highlight large XML files.

There is also a plugin to reformat JSON.

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