01 / File management

Explorer forgets. HawPeek remembers.

A fast, light file manager for Windows that bookmarks your open spaces—windows, panes, and tabs that reopen where you left them—and peeks inside any file with one key.

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HawPeek paper theme with dual panes, tabs, and a saved Iceland trip workspace — Workspace ledger

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01 / Paths & workspaces

Bookmark your open spaces.

That is the peek in HawPeek: a hawk's-eye view over your working directories. Save your whole arrangement—windows, panes, and tabs—as a named workspace, and let HawPeek collect the paths you reach for most, so the file or folder you need is never more than a peek away.

Windows, panes, tabs, pathsEverything reopens together—your whole working setup, not just a folder.
Favorites and recent placesPin what matters; HawPeek ranks the rest by how often you visit.
Named workspacesOne setup per project—switch contexts without losing the previous one.
Resurrect the accidental closeRecently closed can bring back a tab, a window, or an entire workspace.

HawPeek window with dual panes, an independent tab strip on each pane, and workspaces in the sidebar — Tabs on every pane, workspaces in the sidebar—the whole session comes back.

02 / Fast and light

Executable: 10.9 MiB
Feel: Quick to start, snappy on huge folders
Platform: Windows 10 1809+ / 11, x64
Privacy: No account, subscription, or telemetry

03 / Preview

Peek, don't open.

Press Space on any file—images, text, and PDFs appear instantly in a floating preview.
The list keeps moving behind the preview: arrow to the next file, or peek inside folders too.
Icons and Tiles show real thumbnails, not generic icons.

Spacebar preview of a photo floating over the HawPeek file listing — One key opens the preview; the file list remains live behind it.

04 / File operations

Panes and easy moves.

Copy or move across panes—or plain Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V—jobs run in the background with taskbar progress and full undo/redo.
Compare two folders and mark what differs—size, date, or only-here.
Bulk rename previews every change before it lands.

Two HawPeek panes comparing March and April folders with changed and only-here files marked — Side-by-side comparison keeps moves deliberate.

05 / Search and analysis

Find anything, know your disk.

Search by name, file content, or Ranked—regular expressions supported.
Open file location jumps straight to the result's folder.
The disk-usage analyzer drills into the space hogs; the duplicate finder reclaims the rest.

Ranked HawPeek search results across folders — Ranked results stay tied to their folders.

HawPeek disk usage donut with the largest items — See where the space went without leaving the window.

06 / Windows-native

Feels like Windows, only lighter.

The real right-click menu includes third-party verbs such as 7-Zip.
Follows Windows light, dark, and High Contrast; interface zoom, Ctrl+K, and screen-reader labels are built in.
Optionally make HawPeek your default file manager, including Win+E.

The real Windows context menu inside HawPeek — Native shell actions stay available.

HawPeek sidebar with Favorites, Tags, labels, and Places — Your organization stays within reach.

07 / Overview

Every workspace at a glance.

Ctrl+Shift+O opens the Overview: every saved workspace as a live card.
Switch straight into a workspace, or close the ones you no longer need.
Recently closed resurrects a tab, a window, or a whole workspace.

HawPeek Overview showing workspace cards and Recently closed entries — The Overview is the capstone of session management—not the whole story.

08 / Availability

Fast. Light. Ready to remember.

HawPeek is coming to the Microsoft Store as a one-time purchase—no subscription.

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