Alternative to Quickview

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Is there a freeware alternative for Quickview?

I recently upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP and miss this app - any freeware
alternatives?
 
Trog Dog said:
Is there a freeware alternative for Quickview?

I recently upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP and miss this app - any freeware
alternatives?
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I hope someone has a better answer. Until then....

TrackerV3 supports thumbs and a viewer pane where you can preview a few
basic file types (including HTML) plus a slew of audio and video formats.
Irfanview, XnView, SlowView, and FreshView (among others) will display a
wide variety of graphical formats.

Columbus also includes viewing technology from Stellent (current owner of
Quick View Plus) and Rasterex. The free Columbus Personal Edition document
management system is limited to 200 documents (IIRC) on non-networked
drives. Somewhat ironic as it claims to support 300 formats. You may be
able to find an older version that supported unlimited documents but was
subject to some other limitations that I don't recall at the moment.

I assume you already have a good archive (zip) program. If not, visit
Pricelessware, Files.

There are also a number of viewers for specific formats (e.g., MS Word
Viewer, MS Access Viewer).

The best alternative may be picking through the list at
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_GRAPHICS.php

I think everything I've mentioned is linked there or elsewhere in
www.pricelessware.org
www.pricelesswarehome.org

[OT] If you feel tempted to buy Quick View Plus, look at PowerDesk first.
The commercial PowerDesk includes Quick View Plus modules via a viewer pane.
I believe the QVP is one or two editions older than the current QVP but
still far more extensive than the paltry few formats included in Win95 and
Win98. PowerDesk is much less expensive than Quick View Plus. Cheaper
still on EBay or similar. Note that SystemSuite only includes the free
PowerDesk _without_ the viewer.

[Sort of On Topic] If you are handy, you might try experimenting with
pointing PowerDesk Free/Trial at the viewing modules installed by Columbus
PE. PowerDesk documentation briefly mentions using external Quick View Plus
files. I am unclear whether that feature is available in PowerDesk
Free/Trial.

BillR
 
Columbus also includes viewing technology from Stellent (current owner of
Quick View Plus) and Rasterex. The free Columbus Personal Edition document
management system is limited to 200 documents (IIRC) on non-networked
drives. Somewhat ironic as it claims to support 300 formats. You may be
able to find an older version that supported unlimited documents but was
subject to some other limitations that I don't recall at the moment.
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I'm certain as a result of the introduction of Columbus Professional,
the free version of Columbus has been seriously crippled with the
advent of version 3.0.

It's funny as previously there were a spate of old versions of
Columbus available for download, but this is no longer the case.

Unfortunate.
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Chris
 
BillR said:
I hope someone has a better answer. Until then....

TrackerV3 supports thumbs and a viewer pane where you can preview a few
basic file types (including HTML) plus a slew of audio and video formats.
Irfanview, XnView, SlowView, and FreshView (among others) will display a
wide variety of graphical formats.

Columbus also includes viewing technology from Stellent (current owner of
Quick View Plus) and Rasterex. The free Columbus Personal Edition document
management system is limited to 200 documents (IIRC) on non-networked
drives. Somewhat ironic as it claims to support 300 formats. You may be
able to find an older version that supported unlimited documents but was
subject to some other limitations that I don't recall at the moment.

I assume you already have a good archive (zip) program. If not, visit
Pricelessware, Files.

There are also a number of viewers for specific formats (e.g., MS Word
Viewer, MS Access Viewer).

The best alternative may be picking through the list at
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_GRAPHICS.php

I think everything I've mentioned is linked there or elsewhere in
www.pricelessware.org
www.pricelesswarehome.org
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Bill, are you sure about that file limitation for Columbus? I looked
but couldn't find any mention of it on their site:

http://www.oasys-software.com/product/dm/columbus/

Not only that, but they're listed at Nonags who won't list crippleware
if they're aware that's the case.

I just emailed the company for clarification and will post back to
this thread if they reply.
 
I've tried to find an alternative and haven't been successful either. Quite
a shame really, can't be any harder to do in XP than in '98. I suppose we
just need someone who'll take it on!
 
Bill, are you sure about that file limitation for Columbus? I looked
but couldn't find any mention of it on their site:

http://www.oasys-software.com/product/dm/columbus/

Not only that, but they're listed at Nonags who won't list crippleware
if they're aware that's the case.

I just emailed the company for clarification and will post back to
this thread if they reply.
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Hi John,

I'll be curious to see your reply. I've never seen the file
limitation mentioned, but the elimination of shared drive access in V3
makes it a non-starter for me. If they had fixed a bunch of problems
in V3, I might put up with it, but this is not the case.

Chris.
===========================================================================
Chris
 
Box134 said:
I've tried to find an alternative and haven't been successful either. Quite
a shame really, can't be any harder to do in XP than in '98. I suppose we
just need someone who'll take it on!
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Is Ultra Reader any use to you? Not much functionality, but ...
www.ultrareader.com
 
Chris said:
Hi John,
I'll be curious to see your reply. I've never seen the file
limitation mentioned, but the elimination of shared drive access in V3
makes it a non-starter for me. If they had fixed a bunch of problems
in V3, I might put up with it, but this is not the case.
Click to expand...

They still haven't responded. I emailed them for a free registration
code and got it, but I don't want to install Columbus because I'm
currently using the old version of Quickview on my ME system and the
two might conflict.
 
Shilun said:
Is Ultra Reader any use to you? Not much functionality, but ...
www.ultrareader.com
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The thing I like about Quickview is that I can look at WordPerfect
documents. Ultrareader won't do this from what their site says. Still,
it might be better than nothing for some folks, especially if they
don't use WordPerfect.

Be careful though... they say that they're listed at FreewareFiles.com
and I couldn't find them there. Couldn't find them at Snapfiles,
Nonags or Freeware Home either.
 
BillR said:
Trog Dog said:
Is there a freeware alternative for Quickview?

I recently upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP and miss this app - any
freeware
alternatives?
Click to expand...

I hope someone has a better answer. Until then....

TrackerV3 supports thumbs and a viewer pane where you can preview a few
basic file types (including HTML) plus a slew of audio and video formats.
Irfanview, XnView, SlowView, and FreshView (among others) will display a
wide variety of graphical formats.

Columbus also includes viewing technology from Stellent (current owner of
Quick View Plus) and Rasterex. The free Columbus Personal Edition
document
management system is limited to 200 documents (IIRC) on non-networked
drives. Somewhat ironic as it claims to support 300 formats. You may be
able to find an older version that supported unlimited documents but was
subject to some other limitations that I don't recall at the moment.

I assume you already have a good archive (zip) program. If not, visit
Pricelessware, Files.

There are also a number of viewers for specific formats (e.g., MS Word
Viewer, MS Access Viewer).

The best alternative may be picking through the list at
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/P_GRAPHICS.php

I think everything I've mentioned is linked there or elsewhere in
www.pricelessware.org
www.pricelesswarehome.org

[OT] If you feel tempted to buy Quick View Plus, look at PowerDesk first.
The commercial PowerDesk includes Quick View Plus modules via a viewer
pane.
I believe the QVP is one or two editions older than the current QVP but
still far more extensive than the paltry few formats included in Win95 and
Win98. PowerDesk is much less expensive than Quick View Plus. Cheaper
still on EBay or similar. Note that SystemSuite only includes the free
PowerDesk _without_ the viewer.

[Sort of On Topic] If you are handy, you might try experimenting with
pointing PowerDesk Free/Trial at the viewing modules installed by Columbus
PE. PowerDesk documentation briefly mentions using external Quick View
Plus
files. I am unclear whether that feature is available in PowerDesk
Free/Trial.

BillR
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What I miss about Quickview is the ability to right click a file and view
it - there were files that it couldn't handle, but on the whole it used to
serve most of my needs.
 
Night2000 said:
I checked they are listed at FreewareFiles.com here's the link which
may wrap:

http://www.freewarefiles.com/programs.php?ProgramID=10495&categoryid=9&subcategoryid=96

I didn't check the other places you mentioned.
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had nothing to do with you. You are like a scorned woman who just
can't let go. It's okay you can play tough, or be whoever you want to
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with you. Sucks to be you...
 
Night2000 said:
I checked they are listed at FreewareFiles.com here's the link which
may wrap:

http://www.freewarefiles.com/programs.php?ProgramID=10495&categoryid=9&subcategoryid=96

I didn't check the other places you mentioned.
Click to expand...

You're right. It must have been the way I spelled the program name
("UltraReader" instead of "Ultra Reader") because I was easily able to
find that link by spelling it as two words instead of one. Thanks for
catching that.

Guess it looks like a pretty good program. Of course, it's a stand
alone like Columbus rather than a context menu item like Quickview. On
the other hand, it may be possible to use it to get rid of Word Viewer
and Powerpoint Viewer 2003. That would be very nice, given the way
Word Viewer screws up .doc file associations (probably by design.)
 
You're right. It must have been the way I spelled the program name
("UltraReader" instead of "Ultra Reader") because I was easily able to
find that link by spelling it as two words instead of one. Thanks for
catching that.

Guess it looks like a pretty good program. Of course, it's a stand
alone like Columbus rather than a context menu item like Quickview. On
the other hand, it may be possible to use it to get rid of Word Viewer
and Powerpoint Viewer 2003. That would be very nice, given the way
Word Viewer screws up .doc file associations (probably by design.)
Click to expand...

It does look like it may be a good program for XP users. I also was
used to Quickview and miss using it. Of course I have my older Win 98
machine networked with my XP. So if need be I could still use
Quickview. Still Ultra Reader may be a good replacement for the XP
machine.
 
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