PPT4: Could Not Locate Quick Preview Error Starting PowerPoint
  
PSS ID Number: Q112436
Article last modified on 05-17-1998
 
windows:4.0,4.0a,4.0c
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c
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SUMMARY
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Regardless of whether you choose to install the Quick Preview for
PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint will ask you whether you want to run the
Quick Preview, the first two times that you run PowerPoint.
 
   Welcome to PowerPoint! Before you begin working, we recommend that
   you go through the animated Quick Preview for a brief tour of
   PowerPoint 4.0.
 
If you choose the OK button, PowerPoint will try to run a program called
PREVIEW.EXE, which it expects to find in the same directory as the
PowerPoint program file. If that file is not there, you will get the
following error message:
 
   PowerPoint could not locate or start the QuickPreview. It can be
   installed using PowerPoint Setup.
 
You will get the same error message if you choose the Quick Preview
command from the Help menu if the PREVIEW.EXE file cannot be found
at the expected location.
 
When you choose to do a Laptop (Minimum) installation of PowerPoint,
the Quick Preview is not installed, but PowerPoint still asks if you
want to run it the first two times that you run PowerPoint.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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This is controlled by the following line in the [Microsoft PowerPoint]
section of the POWERPNT.INI file:
 
   FirstTime=<0-2>
 
More information about the entry and other POWERPNT.INI entries can be
found in the PowerPoint README Help file.
 
STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at 
the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in PowerPoint for 
Windows 95, version 7.0.
 
Additional query words: PP4 QuickPreview tutorial buglist pp4bug
winppt 4.00c
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Keywords          : kbsetup kbusage kbfasttip kbbuglist
Version           : windows:4.0,4.0a,4.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS
Hardware          : x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix
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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.