Get Netbook-Friendly, Lightning Fast Document Viewing with TextMaker Viewer

Whether you have a sluggish PC or a lethargic netbook, I feel your pain. Opening a lumbering word processor like Word or OpenOffice can be a slow ordeal, especially if all you want to do is read a document -- not edit it. Sounds like you should install TextMaker Viewer, a free text viewer compatible with all common file formats.

TextMaker Vewer is obviously not going to replace your word processor, since it doesn't edit. It includes few amenities -- a full screen mode and zoom control being about the extent of the features. But TextMaker is a very lightweight program. The download is just 4MB, and it opens almost instantly. Opening a document in TextMaker is akin to opening a PDF in FoxIt after getting used to the speed of Adobe Reader... you'll marvel at how snappy it is, even (or perhaps especially) on a sluggish machine. [via gHacks]