Re: Seeing VERSIONINFO under Vista?

The problem I have with this sort of decision is IT IS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS to tell me
what I "should" see. This high-handed "we're doing this for your own good" attitude is
severely hurting them. These are the same idiots who think that dropping useful and
important information (such as path names and file names) and replacing them with "..." is
actually an INTELLIGENT decision (which pretty much proves the Theory of Evolution: it's
just that some are not as far from monkeys as we would hope).
joe

On Fri, 18 May 2007 06:34:41 -0700, "Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,

You're right that some of the informaiton is not displayed. Perhaps MSFT
thought this was superfolous to the normal desktop user and got rid of it in
difference to easy of use. You could modify PJ's test program pretty easily
to spiff it up a bit and use it as a utility to show you all of the gory
details:

http://www.naughter.com/versioninfo.html

Tom

"David Webber" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This may not be the right place to ask but folk on "....vista.general"
appear not to know. I suppose people who program VERSIONINFOs into their
applications may know how to see them after compilation, and so....

When I right click on an EXE or DLL file in XP, I can look at its version
information.

Vista only seems to offer a subset of this. Is there any way (for
example) I can read the "SpecialBuild" field of the VERSIONINFO of an
executable?

Dave
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