QuickView

[Nana]

Hello Everybody!

Is there anywhere that still offers the free version of QuickView for download? I use WinMe, so it wasn't included with my OS. I know an expanded version is available for sale, but I would like the freeware version which was available with W95/98.

Thank you,
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[TonyKlein]

Hi Nana,

Read "In Windows Millennium: Where's Quick View?" here: <a target="_blank" href=http://www.woram.com/letter/01-01.HTM>http://www.woram.com/letter/01-01.HTM</a>

John Woram has a fix.

Good luck, Tony

[BertImmenschuh]

Nana, the QuickView installation in Win95/98 was good but quite limited on the formats it could view. I've been with the full version [QuickView Plus] since shortly after I saw its potential in Win95.

But to answer your delimna, QuickView is embedded in Win95/98 *.cab files. There probably is no way to extract all the files needed to have QV on WinME as there is no list [too embedded in Windows]. I just looked at the QV *.exe file in the Win95 .cab and it is only 20KB, that's way too small for what it can do, so there's a number of other files needed. And for WinME you'd need a version from Win98 due to the FAT32 drive format just to make sure it'd work.

I know $35 sounds like a lot of money for the download from <a target="_blank" href=http://www.jasc.com>http://www.jasc.com</a> but it is a powerful program.

You might do a Google search for surplus software for an older version, it's up to 7 now.

[Nana]

Tony,

Thank you very much. I have searched for QuickView for about 2 months at Microsoft & on Google. I didn't know what the file was called (quikvu.exe), so maybe that was my problem. Also, depending on where I looked, QuickView was spelled different ways - 1 word, 2 words and various permutations of letter combinations. And, of course, many of the references led to the JASC site.

Tony, thank you again. It is very much appreciated.

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[TonyKlein]

No prob, Nana! :)

I just did a Google search on keywords Millennium and Quickview myself, and the Woram link was among the first hits.

And I agree with Bert about Quickview Plus.

I've got it as well, and I love it!
Moreover, as it saves you from purchasing 225 other programs, it's probably the cheapest application in the world... /images/forums/icons/laugh.gif

[Nana]

Bert,

Thank you very much for your reply. You commented on the number of files in QuickView - there are 33 & it's 587kb. I found this out when I downloaded it from MS.

I want to try their version first to see if I will even use it. From all my searches over the past two months, I've learned it's very limited, but that's all I want for now.

I had a good chuckle at your comment:
<font color=blue>"I know $35 sounds like a lot of money. . . "</font color=blue>

You have no idea just how much! I live in the great white frozen north, otherwise known as Canada, where $35. USD pays my mortgage & house insurance for the year! /images/forums/icons/laugh.gif

Thanks again, Bert. I may get the JASC programme in the future.

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[Nana]

Tony,

It never occured to me to add the word Millennium to my search at Google. I just looked for Quick View. I didn't get any hits that were of any use to me - OR I didn't realize that they would be of use & I didn't check them out any further.

Thanks again, Tony.
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