PowerToys Peek is the upcoming Windows version of macOS Quick Look

Microsoft’s PowerToys app will be adding a new feature called Peek in the near future. If you're familiar with macOS, you probably know about Quick Look, which lets you quickly preview files with one click. PowerToys Peek is essentially a Windows version of Quick Look, and you can enable these previews using the keyboard shortcut of your choice.

PowerToys’ Peek tool was shared by Reddit user MSFT-SAM, who developed the project with a handful of colleagues during Microsoft’s Hack Week. The way it works is that you simply select a file in File Explorer and press a key combination of your choice (the default seems to be Shift Spacebar) to open a preview window showing the file's contents. In videos shared by users, it is only used for images, but may eventually be used for other types of files as well.

You might think that Windows File Explorer already has the option to add a preview pane, but this takes up valuable space on the main window and it's always there. Using quick preview options like this, you can preview files without affecting the rest of the UI. Also, these previews may be larger.

PowerToys Peek and Quick Look work slightly differently on macOS. On Apple's platform you can just press the space bar when selecting a file to preview it, but with this PowerToys implementation you need to use a two-key combination since PowerToys doesn't allow single-key shortcuts.

This feature may take some time to release properly to PowerToys. According to Reddit users, this is an early prototype that was developed in just a week, but the PowerToys team will likely flesh it out with support for more file types and other options before official release. The latest version of PowerToys was released just a week ago and is primarily focused on fixes.

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