| Name | Modified | Size | Downloads / Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent folder | |||
| SageThumbs2K-Setup-2.1.0-arm64.exe | 2026-08-16 | 12.5 MB | |
| SageThumbs2K-Setup-2.1.0.exe | 2026-08-16 | 13.8 MB | |
| SageThumbs2K-Portable-2.1.0-arm64.zip | 2026-08-16 | 22.0 MB | |
| SageThumbs2K-Portable-2.1.0.zip | 2026-08-16 | 23.7 MB | |
| README.md | 2026-08-16 | 4.9 kB | |
| SageThumbs 2K 2.1.0 source code.tar.gz | 2026-08-16 | 5.0 MB | |
| SageThumbs 2K 2.1.0 source code.zip | 2026-08-16 | 5.3 MB | |
| Totals: 7 Items | 82.3 MB | 1 | |
TL;DR
🆕 New
- Press Space to preview works in Everything 1.4 too
- A hotkey now previews files in administrator windows
- SageThumbs now tells you when Space cannot work
- The doctor report also flags when Space cannot work
Read more: everything in 2.1.0
### Added - **Press Space to preview now works in [Everything](https://www.voidtools.com/) 1.4 as well as 1.5.** 1.4 never told anyone which result was selected, which is why it was unsupported: there was nothing to read. It turns out its result list will answer if you ask it directly, so now we ask. Click a result in 1.4 and tap Space and you get the same preview 1.5 users have had, following you as you arrow down the hits. Installed or portable, under any instance name, and whichever columns you have showing. - **Preview now works over a window running as administrator, using a hotkey.** Space cannot work there and never could: Windows withholds keystrokes typed into an administrator window from ordinary programs, so the keypress never reaches us. A **global hotkey is not affected** by that, and reading which file you have selected was never affected either, so the only thing that was ever missing was a way to ask. Now there is one. Bind a key to the new **"Quick preview the selected file"** action in Settings, Quick action, and it previews the selected file anywhere, including inside an Everything or Explorer window running as administrator. Your hotkey has to include **Ctrl, Alt or Shift**, which is a Windows rule rather than ours: a plain one-key shortcut is delivered like ordinary typing and gets blocked over an administrator window exactly as Space does, while a combination comes through. **Ctrl+Space** is the natural pick. This is also why Space itself can never be made to work there, however we ask for it. This matters most for Everything 1.4, which asks for administrator the first time it indexes your drives, so people end up there by accident and had no way forward at all. - **SageThumbs now TELLS you when Space cannot work, instead of doing nothing.** This used to be the one failure that was completely silent: when the window in front runs as administrator, Windows never delivers the keypress to us at all, so there is no swallowed key for us to notice and complain about. So we stopped waiting for the key. The moment an Everything or Explorer window running as administrator becomes active, you get a tray notification, **before you press anything**, explaining why Space is doing nothing and what to use instead. **Click it and Settings opens** so you can bind the hotkey right there. It repeats on a widening interval for as long as the situation lasts, rather than telling you once and then leaving you to it. **Space is still the default and has not changed.** Nothing needs configuring for the normal case; the hotkey is only for people who choose to run as administrator. - **`st2k doctor` reports the same thing**, for when the notification was missed or the tray icon is hidden: with the window open it names which program is running as administrator and the fix, and it also tells you when Quick preview is simply switched off, which is its default.Verified installer
- File:
SageThumbs2K-Setup-2.1.0.exe - Size: 13760734 bytes
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SHA-256:
a073473725ef00cc65201648aac04800b1e540578af46a029c7d4372fd51bc4c -
ARM64 installer:
SageThumbs2K-Setup-2.1.0-arm64.exe - ARM64 SHA-256:
32d63a6f8f63b0117e376a1c5e49eb8974def003fec24750b9d998d247ef1405
Portable (no installer)
Extract and run. Nothing is installed, nothing goes in the registry, no admin needed.
Settings live in SageThumbs2K.ini next to the exe.
You get the app and the command line tool: settings, convert and resize, quick preview, screenshots, OCR, the colour picker and the folder tools.
Explorer thumbnails and the classic right-click menu work too. Turn them on with
st2k register, or the button in Settings under Advanced. That registers the handler
for your user account only: no installer, no administrator rights, nothing written
machine-wide. st2k register --off undoes it, and you should run that before moving
or deleting the folder, otherwise Windows is left pointing at a file that has gone.
Three things still need the installer, because Windows only accepts them registered for the whole machine: the Explorer preview pane, the Details pane columns, and the Windows 11 right-click menu (the compact one).
- x64 portable:
SageThumbs2K-Portable-2.1.0.zip -
x64 portable SHA-256:
e6b5d1f01985ea6fcedfd827fe8775dc8fbbea9f05de100027abda69f5bb3550 -
arm64 portable:
SageThumbs2K-Portable-2.1.0-arm64.zip - arm64 portable SHA-256:
7eb851f12700dfd3c647c771096c5efd36319a665f4c816f33a596a59735ed90
