The 'Peek utility,' a multi-viewer from Power Toys that reads any format and does so very quickly, works in Windows Explorer but not in Directory Opus. Is there any way I can make it work? This is the website for the 'Peek utility' from 'Power Toys,' if anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
PowerToysutilidad Peek para Windows | Microsoft Learn
1 Like
It works for me.
Are you sure the shortcut to launch it is not clashing with one in Opus ?
Mine is set on space.
Are you sure yours is set on space???
I didn't know you can set its shortcut on anything other than something + Space
Yes, I’ve already tried and changed several keyboard shortcuts, but it still doesn’t work. I’ve set 'Ctrl+>', 'Windows+o,' 'Ctrl+ñ' to avoid conflicts, and it still doesn’t work, but it does work in Windows Explorer.
By default, I believe it is set to the 'space' key, but you can change it and combine it with the 'Windows, Ctrl, or Alt key + any key you're not using
I’m not sure if it’s a configuration I need to change in "Directory Opus" or "Power Toys," or if it’s an internal compatibility issue.
Apologies, this is not Peek I am using.
I've been using a few different viewers of this kind, and thought this was the current one.
I've got it installed with PowerToys, but can't trigger it with its current setting (Windows+C).
FWIW, what I am using is QuickLook (GitHub - QL-Win/QuickLook: Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows) which works quite well for me (searching this page made me realize there are alternatives to installation from MS Store which unfortunately was what I did).
I use 'Quick Look,' which I've been using for years, but I've been testing 'Peek' from 'Power Toys' for several weeks now, and it works much better—it's very fast, much more so than all the others I've tried so far, and it seems quite stable. It opens previews very quickly and smoothly. 'Quick Look' isn't bad, but sometimes it lags with some Word or Excel files and certain images depending on the size. You should try 'Peek' from 'Power Toys,' and you'll see it works great. The downside, from what I’ve tested, is that it doesn’t work in Directory Opus, only in Windows Explorer.
I just gave it a very quick try, and it seemed a bit less responsive than Quick Look, didn't show archive content when called from one of a multipart rar (other than first part).
I don't do much preview of anything else but text or zip/rar archives and sometimes PDF, so I won't really benefit from quick office documents preview.
I trust you on the fact it's overall more responsive, those PowerToys usually really have ... power 
In the end, not being able to launch it from Opus will be a show stopper for me. Explorer is only opened on such occasions as threads like this one
I am a photographer, and I mostly work with images, but I also use office software for client contracts and spreadsheets. For my part, I do need it to be fast with office documents, images, and graphics. It's a shame—Quick Look works fine for me, but many times it crashes, and I have to restart it, especially when trying to open large files.
I just tried to see if there was a way to interact with peek to ask for a quick view for a file, but there does not seem to be such so far (something like command line, named pipe or API request).
A request has been made on github, but not implemented so far (context is the same you'd want : call it from third-party tools : Everything, Total Commander, Opus, ...).
2 Likes
Ok, thank you very much. We'll have to wait for the PowerToys team to release something regarding this. Thanks again, I’ll keep an eye on it.
1 Like