Are these things missing from XP?

[Peabody]

Or have I just not found them?

The first is QuickView, a function that appeared in the context menu
in Win98SE that let you open a wide variety of file formats without
having to open the related program itself, and even if that program
wasn't installed on your computer. For example, I routinely viewed
Word Perfect documents with it.

QuickView doesn't show up when I right-click in XP. Is it just not
there? If so, does anyone know of a replacement I could install,
either from Microsoft or someone else? That was a really useful
program.

The second involves multimedia files. Running MP 6.4 under 98SE, I
could right-click on the window while the file was playing, and
select Properties, then Advanced, and it would give me all kinds of
interesting information about the bitrate of the clip, and which
codecs or drivers were involved in playing it, and even allow me to
change the settings of the codecs in some cases. The MP 10 that
came on my XP computer doesn't provide any of that information -
just the size in pixels.

Is there a setting or registry tweak that will enable that
information in MP 10? If not, can I install MP 6.4? Where would I
find a version that works under XP? Or do I need to get Media
Player Classic or something like that?

 

[seth]

can't help you with quickview
but media player 6.4 is in xp, just doesn't appear in start menu
c:\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe

 

[Don MI]

Quick View is not included in Windows XP. The full version, Quick View Plus
version 8, is a commercial product. For information:
http://www.avantstar.com/index.htm

Don

 

[Peabody]

seth says...

can't help you with quickview but media player 6.4 is in
xp, just doesn't appear in start menu
c:\program files\windows media player\mplayer2.exe

Not in my XP. But thanks for the suggestion.