What's a good simple image viewer for windows
Can anyone recommend a good, basic image viewer for Windows? I need something really simple that just shows images and does very little else (no interface clutter or slow loading times). I'm having trouble creating a shortcut to Windows Picture & Fax viewer via Dreamweaver and Microsoft Photo Editor isn't working and I can't be bothered to try and fix it.
Any other suggestions?
JeevesBond posted this at 18:55 — 24th May 2007.
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I seem to remember--through the mists of time--someone on this site recommending Irfanview. Think it was either Busy or Greg K.
teammatt3 posted this at 19:24 — 24th May 2007.
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You can pop them open with IE or another browser and that should work. Probably not the ideal solution though.
Greg K posted this at 19:35 — 24th May 2007.
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Well I found a link to open up the FAX/PIC viewer, ("rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen") and modified the registry for the extentions for .jpg in dreamweaver, and well it isn't quite working...
Will play around later with it more.
BTW: On my system they could be found in the registry at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-117609710-789336058-839522115-1004\Software\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Helper Applications Preferences
(To find it, I made a fake .EXE file on the D: drive called REGFIND01.exe and then in dreamweaver, assigned that to be the application to launch .JPGs. Then I was able to go into the registry and search for REGFIND01.exe to locate where the settings were for the .JPG extention).
Gotta run now, but will try some more later.
-Greg
Megan posted this at 19:38 — 24th May 2007.
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I found that instruction too - can't be bothered to faff with that stuff! Want simple program that works like normal software
Then it'll be easy to set in other programs and in explorer etc.
Liam - I remember Irfanview. I think I have it installed here. I'll have to start it up again to remember for sure but I remember it being rather old skool.
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Busy posted this at 21:35 — 24th May 2007.
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Irfanview is great, very fast with some great features and it's freeware
demonhale posted this at 01:08 — 25th May 2007.
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There's also Picip viewer which works pretty well too...
Megan posted this at 16:19 — 25th May 2007.
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Irfanview shrinkwraps images and doesn't let me resize the window. Deal breaker! Also way too much clutter in the menus.
I'm looking for screenshots of Picip but I can't find any...
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Greg K posted this at 23:31 — 25th May 2007.
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Megan, for your Birthday (and as something for me to do), I give you a Really Simple Viewer....
[Outdated link removed]
It is really basic, I just tested it as the default viewer in dreamweaver for .BMP, .GIF, .JPG and .PNG
-Greg
demonhale posted this at 02:15 — 26th May 2007.
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PicIp Screenshot on official site translated via Yahoo...
Link: http://66.218.71.231/language/translation/translatedPage.php?lp=it_en&text=http%3a%2f%2fwww.viger.it%2fpicip.htm
Greg K posted this at 07:24 — 28th May 2007.
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Just a quick update, I tried my program on a friend's computer... He had v1.1 of the .NET framework, and you need v2 I guess. So I gave it a shot making an installer (linked to on the website I gave) for the program now. Will try to test it tomorrow.
-Greg
Megan posted this at 13:41 — 28th May 2007.
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Works perfectly, thanks a lot Greg! Just what I wanted
That PicIp program looks really old skool
Greg K posted this at 14:15 — 28th May 2007.
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Were you able to just use the .EXE or did you have to use the installer?
-Greg
Megan posted this at 14:58 — 28th May 2007.
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I used the .exe.
It would be nice if the window didn't maximize when I open a file (shrinkwrap instead...) but that's just being fussy!
Thanks a lot!!
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Greg K posted this at 00:48 — 29th May 2007.
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I will work on adding that, will be easy, will just have it always open up to the last state/size.
I'll have to read up on the VB.Net registry code.... So anything you can think of befre 2am, let me know.
-Greg
Greg K posted this at 19:37 — 29th May 2007.
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Well, after messing with code to save settings to the registry, found out the old way in VB 6 still works...... Should have just tried it LOL
Anyhow, I changed the program to save your window size to the registry and use that the next time it loads.
Can still get it same address: http://www.kirsch.net/rsv/
-Greg
thinksuccess posted this at 00:11 — 5th June 2007.
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I like irfanview and picasso from google.
Megan posted this at 13:07 — 5th June 2007.
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Interesting - when you google Picasso the image viewer does not come up at all - it's all about the artist! Or do they spell it differently??? There's nothing in the related searches either.
Thanks for the fix, Greg!
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Abhishek Reddy posted this at 13:50 — 5th June 2007.
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Google's thing is called Picasa. http://picasa.google.com/
Megan posted this at 16:00 — 5th June 2007.
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Oh, right. Looks a little un-simple for my needs
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