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❔ Find common substring at start of every string in list

I have a list of Windows path strings and I want to determine the common beginning shared by all of them, if such a thing exists.

So, a list like:
C:\User\hi.txt
C:\User\b.txt
C:\User\hh.txt
C:\User\hi.txt
C:\User\b.txt
C:\User\hh.txt


would output the string
C:\User\
C:\User\
.

How to smoothly accomplish such a thing?
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