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I've neved tried the preview feature of Windows Explorer, but that's why it doesn't work: explorer.exe process is blacklisted by VirtualMIDISynth driver.
Starting from version 1.2.0 VMS has a blacklist of processes not allowed to load the MIDI driver; it was added because a lot of them were system processes and loading the driver (most of them will also open the MIDI device, still wonder why...) requires a lot of time. It also requires a lot of memory (think about soundfont preloading with a 1GB soundfont).
Finally these system processes will hold the driver in use, preventing it from being updated without a reboot.
As for your soundfont list question, you're right.
Instrument search is done from bottom to top of the list, and the first found wins.
So you should load an almost complete SF at first, followed by your preferred "patches".
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