Hi
Not being a serious programmer so I'm sorry I can't help any further.  My main use 
of quick view is to just check email attachments to make sure they are not harmful 
and also to get a quick look at files without having to start the full applications.
Philip






On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 8:01 pm, dad wrote:
>Philip, I've been following this post with curiosity. Hard to believe that it's 
over 
>a year old! I'm wondering just what useful information QuickView can provide to 
a 
>non-programmer like myself. I frequently open exe's in QuickView in hopes of learning 
>something about it but I don't know what I'm looking for! Can you give me any suggestions 
>or is this a subject that is too complicated to overview briefly? For example, I 
>recently tried to figure out what GMT.exe was doing on my computer.I didn't install 
>it and noone in my family admitted to installing it, and yet I knew it was "running" 
>because I would spot a listing in my Task Manager (Windows 98 (notSE)) from time 
>to time. QuickView displayed it as a Windows Executable 32 bit for Windows 95 and 
>NT and then provided Technical File Information- Image File Header, Image Optional 
>Header, and Header Information that had no practical value to me. I'm wondering 
if 
>there is something useful in all that for me or if this stuff is useful only to 
someone 
>intending to work with the "code" of the application. You won't hurt my feelings 
>if you post back and tell me it is too complicated a topic for this post and is 
best 
>suited for sophisticates who know programming. At least I'll know enough to turn 
>it off and save a few MBs! Thanks for your thoughts.    
>
>

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