Quick View lets you look at many documents without actually opening them. One advantage of this is speed. Another is safety, especially for MS Word documents. Reading Word documents in Quick View reduces your chances of contracting one of the Word viruses. To enable Quick View for a given file
type, you must install the option. Launch Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs applet, click on the Windows Setup tab, select the Accessories component from the list, and click on the Details button. If Quick View is checked, you've got it. If not, check it! Then, select View/Options from Explorer, click on the File Types tab, the document type you'd like to see in Quick View and the Edit button. Now select Enable Quick View and click on OK twice. Now when you right-click on a file of this type, Quick View will appear in the context menu.