Open File Explorer, click on the View tab and then select Preview pane. Click on a file you wish to view, such as a Word document, Excel sheet, PowerPoint presentation, PDF, or image.

To use it, open File Explorer and head to the file you wish to view, such as a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, PDF, or image. If no preview pane appears, click the View ...

Given how limited the preview pane already feels in Windows 10, even adding just two more file types feels like a huge improvement.

Download Preview Handler Association Editor to enable Windows Explorer preview pane in Windows 11/10. The tool lets you preview EML and other file types files in Windows File Explorer.

To use it, open File Explorer and head to the file you wish to view, such as a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint presentation, PDF, or image. If no preview pane appears, click the View ...

To restore the preview pane in File Explorer, open the application and select the View tab. In the upper menu, locate the Panes section and click on the Preview Pane button.

But in my tests, setting Adobe Reader as the default program robbed PDF Preview of the ability to show thumbnails, although it could still use Windows Explorer’s preview pane.

Windows offers three panes in File Explorer: the navigation pane, the preview pane, and the details pane. The navigation pane on the left sidebar allows you to easily browse through folders and is ...

The Preview Pane lets you quickly preview documents, images, and text files without opening them. This is especially useful when sorting through different types of files with similar names.

Normally, when I view an Explorer folder, I have the PDF files on “view large icons” (as it then gives me a preview of what the first page of the file looks like). But Windows 8 wiped all of that.