diff --git a/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt b/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
index ff2b6f0af3..a4971bbc9e 100644
--- a/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
+++ b/.github/actions/spell-check/expect.txt
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ FILESUBTYPE
 FILESYSPATH
 filesystem
 FILETIME
-FILETYPE
+filetype
 FILEVERSION
 Filtergraph
 Filterkeyboard
diff --git a/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.cpp b/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.cpp
index f671d5684c..974b2fff6a 100644
--- a/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.cpp
+++ b/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.cpp
@@ -25,6 +25,22 @@ namespace PTSettingsHelper
         return result;
     }
 
+	std::wstring get_local_low_folder_location()
+    {
+        PWSTR local_app_path;
+        winrt::check_hresult(SHGetKnownFolderPath(FOLDERID_LocalAppDataLow, 0, NULL, &local_app_path));
+        std::wstring result{ local_app_path };
+        CoTaskMemFree(local_app_path);
+
+        result += L"\\Microsoft\\PowerToys";
+        std::filesystem::path save_path(result);
+        if (!std::filesystem::exists(save_path))
+        {
+            std::filesystem::create_directories(save_path);
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+
     std::wstring get_module_save_folder_location(std::wstring_view powertoy_key)
     {
         std::wstring result = get_root_save_folder_location();
diff --git a/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.h b/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.h
index 2c4e3a24af..9e01b3b206 100644
--- a/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.h
+++ b/src/common/SettingsAPI/settings_helpers.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ namespace PTSettingsHelper
     std::wstring get_module_save_file_location(std::wstring_view powertoy_key);
     std::wstring get_module_save_folder_location(std::wstring_view powertoy_name);
     std::wstring get_root_save_folder_location();
+    std::wstring get_local_low_folder_location();
 
     void save_module_settings(std::wstring_view powertoy_name, json::JsonObject& settings);
     json::JsonObject load_module_settings(std::wstring_view powertoy_name);
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandler.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandler.cs
index d46fa018f4..66888a20d7 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandler.cs
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandler.cs
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                 // TODO: free unmanaged resources (unmanaged objects) and override finalizer
                 // TODO: set large fields to null
                 _disposedValue = true;
+                this.Unload();
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandlerControl.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandlerControl.cs
index d87cf805f5..b420895a4d 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandlerControl.cs
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/MonacoPreviewHandlerControl.cs
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@
 using System;
 using System.Diagnostics;
 using System.Drawing;
+using System.Globalization;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
 using Common;
+using Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco.Helpers;
 using Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco.Properties;
 using Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core;
 using Microsoft.Web.WebView2.WinForms;
@@ -43,18 +46,50 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
         /// </summary>
         private Label _loading;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Loading progress bar
+        /// </summary>
+        private ProgressBar _loadingBar;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Grey background
+        /// </summary>
+        private Label _loadingBackground;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Name of the virtual host
         /// </summary>
         public const string VirtualHostName = "PowerToysLocalMonaco";
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// HTML code passed to the file
+        /// </summary>
+#nullable enable
+        private string? _html;
+#nullable disable
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Id for monaco language
+        /// </summary>
+        private string _vsCodeLangSet;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The content of the previewing file in base64
+        /// </summary>
+        private string _base64FileCode;
+
         [STAThread]
         public override void DoPreview<T>(T dataSource)
         {
+            Logger.LogTrace();
+
             base.DoPreview(dataSource);
 
+            // Sets background color
+            new Task(SetBackground).Start();
+
             // Starts loading screen
-            InitializeLoadingScreen();
+            new Task(InitializeLoadingScreen).Start();
 
             // New webview2 element
             _webView = new WebView2();
@@ -70,10 +105,14 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
 
             if (fileSize < _settings.MaxFileSize)
             {
+                Task initializeIndexFileAndSelectedFileTask = new Task(() => { InitializeIndexFileAndSelectedFile(filePath); });
+                initializeIndexFileAndSelectedFileTask.Start();
+
                 try
                 {
                     InvokeOnControlThread(() =>
                     {
+                        Logger.LogInfo("Create WebView2 environment");
                         ConfiguredTaskAwaitable<CoreWebView2Environment>.ConfiguredTaskAwaiter
                             webView2EnvironmentAwaiter = CoreWebView2Environment
                                 .CreateAsync(userDataFolder: System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERPROFILE") +
@@ -81,6 +120,8 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                                 .ConfigureAwait(true).GetAwaiter();
                         webView2EnvironmentAwaiter.OnCompleted(() =>
                         {
+                            _loadingBar.Value = 60;
+                            this.Update();
                             InvokeOnControlThread(async () =>
                             {
                                 try
@@ -91,49 +132,43 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                                     }
 
                                     _webView2Environment = webView2EnvironmentAwaiter.GetResult();
-                                    var vsCodeLangSet = FileHandler.GetLanguage(Path.GetExtension(filePath));
-                                    string fileContent;
-                                    using (StreamReader fileReader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)))
-                                    {
-                                        fileContent = fileReader.ReadToEnd();
-                                        fileReader.Close();
-                                    }
 
-                                    var base64FileCode = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(fileContent));
-
-                                    string html;
-
-                                    // prepping index html to load in
-                                    using (StreamReader htmlFileReader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(Settings.AssemblyDirectory + "\\index.html", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)))
-                                    {
-                                        html = htmlFileReader.ReadToEnd();
-                                        htmlFileReader.Close();
-                                    }
-
-                                    html = html.Replace("[[PT_LANG]]", vsCodeLangSet, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
-                                    html = html.Replace("[[PT_WRAP]]", _settings.Wrap ? "1" : "0", StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
-                                    html = html.Replace("[[PT_THEME]]", Settings.GetTheme(), StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
-                                    html = html.Replace("[[PT_CODE]]", base64FileCode, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
-                                    html = html.Replace("[[PT_URL]]", VirtualHostName, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
+                                    _loadingBar.Value = 70;
+                                    this.Update();
 
                                     // Initialize WebView
                                     try
                                     {
                                         await _webView.EnsureCoreWebView2Async(_webView2Environment).ConfigureAwait(true);
+
+                                        // Wait until html is loaded
+                                        initializeIndexFileAndSelectedFileTask.Wait();
+
                                         _webView.CoreWebView2.SetVirtualHostNameToFolderMapping(VirtualHostName, Settings.AssemblyDirectory, CoreWebView2HostResourceAccessKind.Allow);
-                                        _webView.NavigateToString(html);
+
+                                        Logger.LogInfo("Navigates to string of HTML file");
+
+                                        _webView.NavigateToString(_html);
                                         _webView.NavigationCompleted += WebView2Init;
                                         _webView.Height = this.Height;
                                         _webView.Width = this.Width;
                                         Controls.Add(_webView);
+                                        _webView.SendToBack();
+                                        _loadingBar.Value = 100;
+                                        this.Update();
                                     }
-                                    catch (NullReferenceException)
+                                    catch (NullReferenceException e)
                                     {
+                                        Logger.LogError("NullReferenceException catched. Skipping exception.", e);
                                     }
                                 }
-                                catch (WebView2RuntimeNotFoundException)
+                                catch (WebView2RuntimeNotFoundException e)
                                 {
+                                    Logger.LogWarning("WebView2 was not found:");
+                                    Logger.LogWarning(e.Message);
                                     Controls.Remove(_loading);
+                                    Controls.Remove(_loadingBar);
+                                    Controls.Remove(_loadingBackground);
 
                                     // WebView2 not installed message
                                     Label errorMessage = new Label();
@@ -160,6 +195,8 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                     InvokeOnControlThread(() =>
                     {
                         Controls.Remove(_loading);
+                        Controls.Remove(_loadingBar);
+                        Controls.Remove(_loadingBackground);
                         Label text = new Label();
                         text.Text = Resources.Exception_Occurred;
                         text.Text += e.Message;
@@ -168,6 +205,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                         text.Width = 500;
                         text.Height = 10000;
                         Controls.Add(text);
+                        Logger.LogError(e.Message);
                     });
                 }
 
@@ -175,11 +213,15 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
             }
             else
             {
+                Logger.LogInfo("File is too big to display. Showing error message");
                 InvokeOnControlThread(() =>
                 {
                     Controls.Remove(_loading);
+                    _loadingBar.Dispose();
+                    Controls.Remove(_loadingBar);
+                    Controls.Remove(_loadingBackground);
                     Label errorMessage = new Label();
-                    errorMessage.Text = Resources.Max_File_Size_Error;
+                    errorMessage.Text = Resources.Max_File_Size_Error.Replace("%1", (_settings.MaxFileSize / 1000).ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture), StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
                     errorMessage.Width = 500;
                     errorMessage.Height = 50;
                     Controls.Add(errorMessage);
@@ -194,6 +236,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
         {
             _webView.Height = this.Height;
             _webView.Width = this.Width;
+            this.Update();
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -205,6 +248,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
             // Checks if already navigated
             if (!_hasNavigated)
             {
+                Logger.LogInfo("Setting WebView2 settings");
                 CoreWebView2Settings settings = (sender as WebView2).CoreWebView2.Settings;
 
 #if DEBUG
@@ -234,10 +278,17 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
                 // Disable status bar
                 settings.IsStatusBarEnabled = false;
 
+                Logger.LogInfo("Remove loading elements");
                 Controls.Remove(_loading);
+                Controls.Remove(_loadingBar);
+                Controls.Remove(_loadingBackground);
 #if DEBUG
                 _webView.CoreWebView2.OpenDevToolsWindow();
+                Logger.LogInfo("Opened Dev Tools window, because solution was built in debug mode");
 #endif
+
+                _loadingBar.Value = 80;
+                this.Update();
             }
         }
 
@@ -251,6 +302,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
             if (_hasNavigated)
             {
                 e.Cancel = false;
+                Logger.LogInfo("Stopped navigation from user");
             }
 
             // If it has navigated to index.html it stops further navigations
@@ -260,24 +312,86 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
             }
         }
 
-        private void InitializeLoadingScreen()
+        private void SetBackground()
         {
+            Logger.LogTrace();
             InvokeOnControlThread(() =>
             {
+                this.BackColor = Settings.BackgroundColor;
+            });
+        }
+
+        private void InitializeLoadingScreen()
+        {
+            Logger.LogTrace();
+            InvokeOnControlThread(() =>
+            {
+                _loadingBackground = new Label();
+                _loadingBackground.BackColor = Settings.BackgroundColor;
+                _loadingBackground.Width = this.Width;
+                _loadingBackground.Height = this.Height;
+                Controls.Add(_loadingBackground);
+                _loadingBackground.BringToFront();
+
+                _loadingBar = new ProgressBar();
+                _loadingBar.Width = this.Width - 10;
+                _loadingBar.Location = new Point(5, this.Height / 2);
+                _loadingBar.Maximum = 100;
+                _loadingBar.Value = 10;
+                Controls.Add(_loadingBar);
+
                 _loading = new Label();
                 _loading.Text = Resources.Loading_Screen_Message;
                 _loading.Width = this.Width;
-                _loading.Height = this.Height;
+                _loading.Height = 45;
+                _loading.Location = new Point(0, _loadingBar.Location.Y - _loading.Height);
+                _loading.TextAlign = ContentAlignment.TopCenter;
                 _loading.Font = new Font("MS Sans Serif", 16, FontStyle.Bold);
                 _loading.ForeColor = Settings.TextColor;
-                _loading.BackColor = Settings.BackgroundColor;
                 Controls.Add(_loading);
+
+                _loading.BringToFront();
+                _loadingBar.BringToFront();
+
+                this.Update();
             });
+            Logger.LogInfo("Loading screen initialized");
+        }
+
+        private void InitializeIndexFileAndSelectedFile(string filePath)
+        {
+            Logger.LogInfo("Starting getting monaco language id out of filetype");
+            _vsCodeLangSet = FileHandler.GetLanguage(Path.GetExtension(filePath));
+
+            using (StreamReader fileReader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)))
+            {
+                Logger.LogInfo("Starting reading requested file");
+                var fileContent = fileReader.ReadToEnd();
+                fileReader.Close();
+                _base64FileCode = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(fileContent));
+                Logger.LogInfo("Reading requested file ended");
+            }
+
+            // prepping index html to load in
+            using (StreamReader htmlFileReader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(Settings.AssemblyDirectory + "\\index.html", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)))
+            {
+                Logger.LogInfo("Starting reading HTML source file");
+                _html = htmlFileReader.ReadToEnd();
+                htmlFileReader.Close();
+                Logger.LogInfo("Reading HTML source file ended");
+        }
+
+            _html = _html.Replace("[[PT_LANG]]", _vsCodeLangSet, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
+            _html = _html.Replace("[[PT_WRAP]]", _settings.Wrap ? "1" : "0", StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
+            _html = _html.Replace("[[PT_THEME]]", Settings.GetTheme(), StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
+            _html = _html.Replace("[[PT_CODE]]", _base64FileCode, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
+            _html = _html.Replace("[[PT_URL]]", VirtualHostName, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
         }
 
         private async void DownloadLink_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
         {
             await Launcher.LaunchUriAsync(new Uri("https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/#download-section"));
+            Logger.LogTrace();
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Properties/Resources.resx b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Properties/Resources.resx
index 0e872dd186..be4a29da68 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Properties/Resources.resx
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Properties/Resources.resx
@@ -118,22 +118,22 @@
     <value>System.Resources.ResXResourceWriter, System.Windows.Forms, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</value>
   </resheader>
   <data name="Max_File_Size_Error" xml:space="preserve">
-      <value>This file is too big to preview.
-Max file size: 50KB</value>
-      <comment>Error message which is shown when the file is too big.</comment>
+    <value>This file is too big to preview.
+Max file size: %1KB</value>
+    <comment>Error message which is shown when the file is too big. %1 gets replaced by a value. Leave KB (means Kilobyte)</comment>
   </data>
   <data name="Exception_Occurred" xml:space="preserve">
-      <value>Exception occurred:
+    <value>Exception occurred:
       </value>
-      <comment>Will be shown when an exception occurred.</comment>
+    <comment>Will be shown when an exception occurred.</comment>
   </data>
   <data name="Loading_Screen_Message" xml:space="preserve">
-      <value>Loading...</value>
+    <value>Loading...</value>
   </data>
   <data name="WebView2_Not_Installed_Message" xml:space="preserve">
-      <value>WebView2 not installed or found.</value>
+    <value>WebView2 not installed or found.</value>
   </data>
   <data name="Download_WebView2" xml:space="preserve">
-      <value>Download WebView2 to display this file.</value>
+    <value>Download WebView2 to display this file.</value>
   </data>
 </root>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Settings.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Settings.cs
index 9779f5c40e..218895b5a8 100644
--- a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Settings.cs
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/Settings.cs
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco
             {
                 if (GetTheme() == "dark")
                 {
-                    return Color.DimGray;
+                    return System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#1e1e1e");
                 }
                 else
                 {
diff --git a/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/helpers/Logger.cs b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/helpers/Logger.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b2bad4b8f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/modules/previewpane/MonacoPreviewHandler/helpers/Logger.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
+// The Microsoft Corporation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
+// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
+
+using System;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Abstractions;
+using interop;
+
+namespace Microsoft.PowerToys.PreviewHandler.Monaco.Helpers
+{
+    public static class Logger
+    {
+        private static readonly IFileSystem _fileSystem = new FileSystem();
+        private static readonly string ApplicationLogPath = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERPROFILE") + "\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Microsoft\\PowerToys\\logs\\FileExplorer_localLow\\Monaco";
+
+        static Logger()
+        {
+            if (!_fileSystem.Directory.Exists(ApplicationLogPath))
+            {
+                _fileSystem.Directory.CreateDirectory(ApplicationLogPath);
+            }
+
+            // Using InvariantCulture since this is used for a log file name
+            var logFilePath = _fileSystem.Path.Combine(ApplicationLogPath, "Monaco-log_" + DateTime.Now.ToString(@"yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + ".txt");
+
+            Trace.Listeners.Add(new TextWriterTraceListener(logFilePath));
+
+            Trace.AutoFlush = true;
+        }
+
+        public static void LogError(string message)
+        {
+            Log(message, "ERROR");
+        }
+
+        public static void LogError(string message, Exception ex)
+        {
+            Log(
+                message + Environment.NewLine +
+                ex?.Message + Environment.NewLine +
+                "Inner exception: " + Environment.NewLine +
+                ex?.InnerException?.Message + Environment.NewLine +
+                "Stack trace: " + Environment.NewLine +
+                ex?.StackTrace,
+                "ERROR");
+        }
+
+        public static void LogWarning(string message)
+        {
+            Log(message, "WARNING");
+        }
+
+        public static void LogInfo(string message)
+        {
+            Log(message, "INFO");
+        }
+
+        private static void Log(string message, string type)
+        {
+            Trace.WriteLine(type + ": " + DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay);
+            Trace.Indent();
+            Trace.WriteLine(GetCallerInfo());
+            Trace.WriteLine(message);
+            Trace.Unindent();
+        }
+
+        public static void LogTrace()
+        {
+            Log(string.Empty, "Trace");
+        }
+
+        private static string GetCallerInfo()
+        {
+            StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();
+
+            var methodName = stackTrace.GetFrame(3)?.GetMethod();
+            var className = methodName?.DeclaringType.Name;
+            return "[Method]: " + methodName?.Name + " [Class]: " + className;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tools/BugReportTool/BugReportTool/Main.cpp b/tools/BugReportTool/BugReportTool/Main.cpp
index f36da41be5..91df7f3948 100644
--- a/tools/BugReportTool/BugReportTool/Main.cpp
+++ b/tools/BugReportTool/BugReportTool/Main.cpp
@@ -297,7 +297,10 @@ int wmain(int argc, wchar_t* argv[], wchar_t*)
     }
 
     auto settingsRootPath = PTSettingsHelper::get_root_save_folder_location();
-    settingsRootPath = settingsRootPath + L"\\";
+    settingsRootPath += L"\\";
+
+    auto localLowPath = PTSettingsHelper::get_local_low_folder_location();
+    localLowPath += L"\\logs\\";
 
     const auto tempDir = temp_directory_path();
     auto reportDir = temp_directory_path() / "PowerToys\\";
@@ -314,12 +317,24 @@ int wmain(int argc, wchar_t* argv[], wchar_t*)
         // Remove updates folder contents
         DeleteFolder(reportDir / "Updates");
     }
+	
     catch (...)
     {
         printf("Failed to copy PowerToys folder\n");
         return 1;
     }
 
+    try
+    {
+        copy(localLowPath, reportDir, copy_options::recursive);
+    }
+
+    catch (...)
+    {
+        printf("Failed to copy logs saved in LocalLow\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
 #ifndef _DEBUG
     InstallationFolder::ReportStructure(reportDir);
 #endif