I have a question about Use Quick View with Any File:

hey, just wondered if anyone knows if QUIKVIEW.EXE will work with Win2000? i know it was abandoned in the newer versions of Windows (as the article states), but i would still like to use it. are the versions from Win95/98 still compatible? what abuot a versin from WinNT (that's what i previously used)? Thanks, Matt

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Matt- Interesting that no one else has replied yet. I had also become used to using Quikview under 95/98, and it still appears under many menus as an option under WIN 2000 - however, an error message tells me it hasn't been installed. That led me to believe there was an option somewhere, but apparently not. I tried copying Quikview.exe from my WIN 98 system to WIN 2000, but it won't run. Thanks for taking the time to document your question, at least I won't spend much more time chasing what used to be a friendly ghost, is now just a ghost. tv


On Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 11:55 am, matt wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>Quick View with Any File:

>
>hey, just wondered if anyone knows if QUIKVIEW.EXE will work with Win2000? i know
>it was abandoned in the newer versions of Windows (as the article states), but i
>would still like to use it. are the versions from Win95/98 still compatible? what
>abuot a versin from WinNT (that's what i previously used)?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt

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I believe it's now packaged as a seperate product!


On Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 7:57 am, Tony Vasilakis wrote:
>Matt-
>Interesting that no one else has replied yet. I had also become used to using Quikview
>under 95/98, and it still appears under many menus as an option under WIN 2000 -
>however, an error message tells me it hasn't been installed. That led me to believe
>there was an option somewhere, but apparently not. I tried copying Quikview.exe from
>my WIN 98 system to WIN 2000, but it won't run.
>Thanks for taking the time to document your question, at least I won't spend much
>more time chasing what used to be a friendly ghost, is now just a ghost.
>tv
>
>

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this is same thing i was looking but i found another inbuilt utility which comes with MS visual c++ tools as depends HTH :)


On Tuesday, June 11, 2002 at 11:05 am, mike wrote:
>I believe it's now packaged as a seperate product!
>
>

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Tony

I am running Win 2000 professional and I've just succeeded in using the version from 
NT to give me this functionality again.
By the way, it looks like you can buy a retail copy from JASC at a reduced price 
right now. See http://www.jasc.com/products/qvp/

PL 





On Thursday, May 9, 2002 at 7:57 am, Tony Vasilakis wrote:
>Matt-
>Interesting that no one else has replied yet. I had also become used to using Quikview 
>under 95/98, and it still appears under many menus as an option under WIN 2000 - 
>however, an error message tells me it hasn't been installed. That led me to believe 
>there was an option somewhere, but apparently not. I tried copying Quikview.exe 
from 
>my WIN 98 system to WIN 2000, but it won't run.
>Thanks for taking the time to document your question, at least I won't spend much 
>more time chasing what used to be a friendly ghost, is now just a ghost.
>tv
>
>

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Philip, how did you confiqure that in W2K? I've got it copied, but not working. I tried making a new File type of EXE to associate with it but hosed up all the EXEs on the box. The registry trick didn't work either. Bob


On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 4:17 pm, Philip wrote:

>Tony
>
>I am running Win 2000 professional and I've just succeeded in using the version 
from 
>NT to give me this functionality again.
>By the way, it looks like you can buy a retail copy from JASC at a reduced price 
>right now. See http://www.jasc.com/products/qvp/
>
>PL 
>

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Bob

It is more than just copying the EXE file and setting the appropriate file associations.
You will need to modify the W2K registry, so you should take the usual precautions 
and the usual disclaimers apply.

1. If you have a NT machine with quick view installed, you need to make a copy all 
the files in the folder where quikview.exe is.  Normally the default location is 

c:\WINNT\System32\Viewers

2. Put all these files in the equivalent location on the W2K machine.  The default 
location should be

c:\WINNT\System32\Viewers.

You may have to create a new folder "Viewers" if it doesn't exist in c:\WINNT\System32

3. Next, you need to enter a whole load of entries in to the W2K registry.  The quickest 
way of doing this is as follows:

a. On the NT machine, run regedit and look for the following keywords "quikview.exe" 
(without the c in quick) and "SCC Quick Viewer"





On my NT machine, I found it under the following sections

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F0F08735-0C36-101B-B086-0020AF07D0F4}]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickView] 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{F0F08735-0C36-101B-B086-0020AF07D0F4}]

and

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\QuickView]

b. Use the registry editor and export these registry sections into .reg files and 
copy them to the W2K machine.  It may be convenient to place them into the same folder 
as the quikview files.

4. On the W2K machine, right click on the .reg files copied from the NT machine and 
select the edit option to check that they do indeed contain the correct information 
from the NT registry.
When you are satisfied, close the file.
Then right click on the .reg file and select the Merge option to merge the entries 
into the W2K registry.

5. When you have completed merging the .reg files, you're done.

I hope this works for you.

The list of file types it can preview is not large, but it should be adequate for 
the usual ones.

If you want something more substantial, then the JASC Quick View 7 Plus appears to 
be good value for money, except that it takes up a lot of disk space for installation 
and needs more RAM to run.

Philip





On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 10:12 am, Bob Schmerda wrote:
>Philip, how did you confiqure that in W2K?  I've got it copied, but not working. 
> I tried making a new File type of EXE to associate with it but hosed up all the 
>EXEs on the box.  The registry trick didn't work either. 
>
>Bob
>

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Man, you are so nice. Disclaimer noticed :-) Goal: regain the information on .EXEs that QuickView gave me in WinNT for my W2K boxes. "Image Optional Header" information, like "Size of Stack Reserved" (for performance tuning large Citrix networks). ?Is there something else I can use on .EXEs instead to get at such info? Thanks...Bob


On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 at 3:03 pm, Philip wrote:

>Bob
>
>It is more than just copying the EXE file and setting the appropriate file associations.
>You will need to modify the W2K registry, so you should take the usual precautions 
>and the usual disclaimers apply.
>
>1. If you have a NT machine with quick view installed, you need to make a copy all 
>the files in the folder where quikview.exe is.  Normally the default location is 
>
>c:\WINNT\System32\Viewers
>
>2. Put all these files in the equivalent location on the W2K machine.  The default 
>location should be
>
>c:\WINNT\System32\Viewers.
>
>You may have to create a new folder "Viewers" if it doesn't exist in c:\WINNT\System32
>
>3. Next, you need to enter a whole load of entries in to the W2K registry.  The 
quickest 
>way of doing this is as follows:
>
>a. On the NT machine, run regedit and look for the following keywords "quikview.exe" 
>(without the c in quick) and "SCC Quick Viewer"
>

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Bob

I'm not sure how much detail you're after but you could try this if you haven't already 
done so.

Create a shortcut in the "Send To" menu to point to quikview.exe, then right click 
on the EXE or DLL or any file and "Send To" the quikview shortcut.  Some details 
of the kind you described can be obtained. 

Philip






On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 8:01 am, Bob Schmerda wrote:
>Man, you are so nice.  Disclaimer noticed :-)
>
>Goal: regain the information on .EXEs that QuickView gave me in WinNT for my W2K 
>boxes.  "Image Optional Header" information, like "Size of Stack Reserved" (for 
performance 
>tuning large Citrix networks).
>
>?Is there something else I can use on .EXEs instead to get at such info?
>
>Thanks...Bob
>

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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.


On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 6:35 pm, Philip wrote:

>Bob
>
>I'm not sure how much detail you're after but you could try this if you haven't 
already 
>done so.
>
>Create a shortcut in the "Send To" menu to point to quikview.exe, then right click 
>on the EXE or DLL or any file and "Send To" the quikview shortcut.  Some details 
>of the kind you described can be obtained. 
>
>Philip
>
>

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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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Hi Philip, Can one install this on WinXP and where can I find the full package of quikview.exe. You see I only save the exe and not all the files that comes with it... :( Also, you say you use it to check out email attachements. Do you actually dare and save these attachements :) I don't. Unless I trust them, I guess one can check these trusted ones. I thank you for your time, and effort. Regards, Student of Life.


On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 7:02 pm, Philip wrote:

>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
>
>

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I was able to get quikview.exe running under Win2000 using the suggested registry merge, but I'm unable to recreate the right-click context menu entry that I had under NT4. Does anyone know how to add & remove items from the right-click menu on an object? Thanks.

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Hi

The method I used to get it working under W2K did not work for WinXP.
I actually went ahead and bought a copy of Quick View Plus 7 from JASC when it was 
discounted by 50% - real value.
Looks like JASC have now passed the product on to Avantstar (www.avantstar.com) - 
now at the normal price.

I never open attachments (double left click) in emails even when they are from trusted 
sources.
Even if they have got pass my virus checker, I still either use quick view (using 
right click) to view them first or save them separately and scan them again before 
opening them in the appropriate application.

Quick view does not run any executable code, so no executables or macros will run.

Philip.





On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 6:48 pm, Student of Life wrote:
>Hi Philip,
>
>Can one install this on WinXP and where can I find the full package of quikview.exe. 
> You see I only save the exe and not all the files that comes with it... :( 
>
>Also, you say you use it to check out email attachements.  Do you actually dare 
and 
>save these attachements :)  I don't.  Unless I trust them, I guess one can check 
>these trusted ones.
>
>I thank you for your time, and effort.
>
>Regards,
>Student of Life.
>
>

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Hi Bob

You should have been able to get the right click option for Quick View after merging 
the registry files.

Any way, here is a link which tells you how to add it.

http://www.mydesktophelp.com/tips/win137.htm

Philip






On Wednesday, February 26, 2003 at 10:58 am, bob wrote:
>I was able to get quikview.exe running under Win2000 using the suggested registry 
>merge, but I'm unable to recreate the right-click context menu entry that I had 
under 
>NT4.  Does anyone know how to add & remove items from the right-click menu on an 
>object?  Thanks.

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QuickView Command Is Missing from Windows 2000 The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server This article was previously published under Q229889 SYMPTOMS After you install or upgrade to Windows 2000, the QuickView command may be missing from the context menu when you right-click a file. CAUSE QuickView is not an installable option for Windows 2000. STATUS This behavior is by design.

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Hi, If Visual C++ 6.0 is installed, one can use Tools->Dependency Walker for the same. It also gives an option to configure quikview.exe as an external viewer. cheers


On Thursday, December 27, 2001 at 11:55 am, matt wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>Quick View with Any File:

>
>hey, just wondered if anyone knows if QUIKVIEW.EXE will work with Win2000? i know
>it was abandoned in the newer versions of Windows (as the article states), but i
>would still like to use it. are the versions from Win95/98 still compatible? what
>abuot a versin from WinNT (that's what i previously used)?
>
>Thanks,
>Matt

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I found a cool util on the web years ago (PCMag.co.za) called 'Image View'.
This is an extention to the normal quick view with a few extra supported picture file types (FreeWare).
This was for Win95 at the time but I still use it as my Quick View alt.
I use WinNT4's quikview.exe because Win2K don't have it any more. I haven't test it on XP, but will check and keep ya posted.
Here is a QuickView.zip file that's got the installation and quikview.exe (WinNT4s :-o Hope I don't get into trouble for that, Sorry MS). Just read the Readme.txt file in the zip file for instruction.

Cheers,
//\\//<<>>XXXVII :-)

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Quickview for Win95 is available here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Windows/Windows95/CDRomExtras/Accessories/quikvu.exe

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This link has been updated to: http://www.mydesktophelp.com/tips/win137.php


On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 3:26 am, Philip wrote:
>
>Hi Bob
>
>You should have been able to get the right click option for Quick View after merging
>the registry files.
>
>Any way, here is a link which tells you how to add it.
>
>http://www.mydesktophelp.com/tips/win137.htm
>
>Philip
>
>

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