Alberto Escobedo has published a tip in his blog at MSDN that suggests a replacement for the Notepad version that comes with Windows Vista for a more complete version, and as he suggests, it opens large files faster.

Step by step instructions: http://blogs.msdn.com/albertoe/archive/2007/01/08/replacing-notepad-in-vista.aspx

Notepad2 Download: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Windows Vista brings an interesting resource that allows copying the path of a selected file in Windows Explorer to the Clipboard.

You can use this resource by pressing Shift key and right-clicking over any file in Windows Explorer and selecting the Copy Path option.