FastPreview Adds Context Menu Thumbnails, Full-Res Previews to Images in Windows Explorer [Download Of The Day]

Whitson Gordon ?Windows only: FastPreview adds a big thumbnail to every image's context menu in Windows Explorer, while also giving you quick access to a full-res preview as well as loads of data about the file.

Windows Explorer's preview pane and image thumbnails are nice, but if you need a larger preview of an image you usually need to double-click on it and open it up in a program. Unfortunately, if you ever work with images, you've probably already changed the double-click behavior to open in something slow and useful, like the GIMP, instead of Microsoft's faster Image Viewer.

Instead of going through the "Open With" menu every time you just want to preview an image, FastPreview adds an image preview to the context menu. From there, you can see the size of the image and a larger thumbnail (which is customizable in size), and clicking on it will open up a super fast, full-size preview of the image. It also adds an option to the context menu that offers a ton of information about the photo, including EXIF data and other tags. If you work with images at all, it's a great little addition to the context menu.

FastPreview is a free download for Windows only.

FastPreview | via FreewareGenius

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