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Add QuickLook to Windows 10

Add QuickLook to Windows 10

- [Instructor] There is a great feature in Mac OS that is not available on Windows called QuickLook. On a Mac, you can go to your storage drive, select a file, then tap the space bar to get a quick preview of the file without actually opening any application. In this week's Monday Productivity Pointers, I want to show you how you can add a very similar feature to Windows by installing a small app. First, we'll need to go to the Microsoft store here on Windows. I'll go the search option up here at the top and search for QuickLook. That's one word with no spaces. Here it is in the search results. This is a free app and you can see that I've already installed it here on this computer. Once it's installed, all you need to do is launch it, which I can do from here or I can go to the start menu and find it there and launch it from there. Now, the only way to know that this application is running is that there's now a new icon down here in the system tray. It looks like a little magnifying…

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