Visit following link and download PreviewHandlerEditor.zip file:ĭownload Preview Handler Association HandlerĢ. eml file preview functionality in Windows 10 Explorer’s Preview Pane, following steps will help you:ġ. He stumbled upon a useful tool written by a Microsoft guy Stephen Toub and having experimented with it, he was able to successfully restore the preview option. Thanks to our reader “ Slinky Grafix” who compiled and shared this tutorial which will help Windows 10 users regain the ability to preview ‘.eml’ files within the Explorer Preview Pane. The internet is full of complaints about this and many people want to get this feature back again. That’s not a very practical solution, especially if you have lots of emails to look through.

If you are one of those people, you will know that the only way to preview a saved email is to open it in another email program such as the Microsoft Mail app. eml (email) files.īut as Windows Live Mail is no longer supported by Microsoft ( more info), many users no longer use that program and have lost this ability to preview.

If you use Windows Live Mail, you can also preview. As most Windows 10 users are aware, we can preview a variety of file types in the Preview Pane of a Windows Explorer window (also known as This PC), which is very useful.

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