What's a good simple image viewer for windows

I seem to remember--through the mists of time--someone on this site recommending Irfanview. Think it was either Busy or Greg K.

You can pop them open with IE or another browser and that should work. Probably not the ideal solution though.

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

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.

Irfanview is great, very fast with some great features and it's freeware

There's also Picip viewer which works pretty well too...

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...

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

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

Works perfectly, thanks a lot Greg! Just what I wanted

That PicIp program looks really old skool

Were you able to just use the .EXE or did you have to use the installer?

-Greg

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!!

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

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

I like irfanview and picasso from google.

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!

Google's thing is called Picasa. http://picasa.google.com/

Oh, right. Looks a little un-simple for my needs