Powertoys: Quick View For Files

[RXminuS]

Being able to select any file in any window (explorer but especially in file upload dialogs) and by pressing spacebar see a quick preview of the file.

There's several tools already that copy this popular MacOS feature but they never fully integrate with the OS well. They usually only work in explorer.exe but this feature is most useful if you want to upload a certain file to a website and you're trying to see a slightly larger preview to make sure you picked the correct version of a document or logo.

Check out #99 which had some great comments too.

[phuclv90]

Spacebar cannot be used for this because it's already used for toggling file selection status

[Stanzilla]

Check out https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook there is already an issue over there https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/issues/626 asking for inclusion in PowerToys.

[vivadavid]

Hi!

I also think it would be a great idea if users could press the space key and get a little preview window on top of file explorer, as it's implemented on MacOS (or on Windows through Seer or QuickLook). I personally keep the preview panel off because it takes space and, in addition to this, usually you don't want to get a preview of every file. Pressing the space key to display a little preview window seems to me like an intuitive solution worth implementing. I keep my fingers crossed.

[ThoAppelsin]

QuickLook is perfect, and available as a Microsoft Store application. I enjoy the updates via the store more than updating via Chocolatey (where I get the PowerToys). Still, I wouldn't mind one less icon on my taskbar if QuickLook was merged into PowerToys.

I don't enjoy the idea of PowerToys swallowing the QuickLook, though. I sincerely think that QuickLook is single-handedly enables more productivity than the entire PowerToys combined, although PowerRename is really nice, too.

[Stanzilla]

QuickLook has limited functionality if installed via the store btw. You'll want to use the msi

[Martin-Hausleitner]

There is already a software called quicklook in the microsoft store you can implement that

[Cdddo]

This would be a great addition, I use Quicklook all the time... its a feature I used constantly on MacOs. I love its ability to pin windows to stay always on top. Use that often with pdfs, images and text files. The file explorer preview pane is often buggy and slow so I tend not to use it, and Quicklook works much faster and unintrusively.