QuickLook
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows (by QL-Win)
| QuickLook | WindowsThumbnailGenerator | |
|---|---|---|
| 69 | 11 | |
| 16,258 | 127 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 4.0 | 0.0 | |
| 25 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
QuickLook
Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickLook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
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IrfanView
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Powertoys Peek - does this feature need to be included natively in future version of Windows?
yes
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
I meant this one
I hope you can look at the features of QuickLook because like the guy above said, it's currently vastly superior :)
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How do you all feel about Windows?
There is QuickLook for Windows although is not as good as the macOS one: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
- Preview exel and word without have it installed, like a pdf file, no edition, just to visualise.
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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Lightweight, offline, documents viewer (mainly PDF, PPT, Word)
QuickLook is pretty useful. It is basically the Windows Version of MAC's QuickLook.
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File-Explorer that can display Readme.md files.
I've been using QuickLook for years, functions just like Preview in macOS (hitting the spacebar after selecting a file pops open a window with the content): https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Photoshop shows different colors and my gradients are ruined, all of this happened overnight. But everywhere else, the file preview's colors are correct. Do you know any reason? Is this related to the Pantone thing?
Why does the Quicklook app show the correct colors and photoshop doesn't?
WindowsThumbnailGenerator
Posts with mentions or reviews of WindowsThumbnailGenerator.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-10.
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How to view folder contents at a glance?
there is this tool, but i've not used it. https://github.com/hahagu/WindowsThumbnailGenerator
- A complete noob who has no idea whatsoever how to use github files - please help
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Will Microsoft ever add folder previews?
I used this program to add thumbnails.
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Is it possible to enable folder preview in Windows 11?
Guys I found a solution. Someone recommend me to use this application and it is working. Give a try for those who have the same trouble.
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Getting back Windows 10 Folder thumbnail previews?
How do I get them back? I'm aware there is this: WindowsThumbnailGenerator/GUI at master · hahagu/WindowsThumbnailGenerator · GitHub but that's a manual bit of software and doesn't pick up any files tagged as 'folder', plus it doesn't fill up the whole thumbnail image.
- Windows 11 folder preview thumbnail (3d party) ?
- is Folder preview features removed from Windows 11 ?
- Windows 11 - Lost Features
- Windows Thumbnail Generator
What are some alternatives?
When comparing QuickLook and WindowsThumbnailGenerator you can also consider the following projects:
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
linux
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.
sushi - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
kinto - Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux & Windows.
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
N1 - :love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome!