When browsing files outside of EDP, you want to quickly view/edit an individual text file with something smarter than notepad. EDP's viewer/editor is definitely richer, you're familiar with it, and it launches quickly. Only it tends to look for a second file to compare with. So just compare the file to itself. Of course now EDP shows the same file contents twice. You can Ctrl-2 the first pane away, or enjoy a cool feature during editing: you see the difference with the original file contents, and can undo changes selectively by merging them back in from the original.
How then can you launch EDP on a single file in a single interaction? Total Commander and other programs typically let you specify an external editor as a command line (to which they append the file name as a parameter). Set this to:
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"C:\Program Files\ExamDiff Pro\ExamDiff.exe" // .
You do want to disable warnings about identical files being compared. If you want to keep them on for real compares, first disable the warnings, export options to a file, and insert a /g: flag in the external editor command line.