View NX (formally Nikon View) is available for free download at the Nikon website, under customer services.
It is possbile to navigate to a folder using windows containing NEF's. If you select view-> thumbnails, thumbnails of the photo's should appear. A preview might also happen if the folder is in my pictures. For the thumbnails and pre-views windoows needs to de-code the NEF information and a codec is used to do this. If View NX is installed it might present the codec to windows which may remain even if View NX is uninstalled.
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