What's a good simple image viewer for windows

Megan's picture

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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?

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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. Smiling

teammatt3's picture

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

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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

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

demonhale's picture

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

Megan's picture

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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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Megan, for your Birthday (and as something for me to do), I give you a Really Simple Viewer....

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It is really basic, I just tested it as the default viewer in dreamweaver for .BMP, .GIF, .JPG and .PNG

-Greg

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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's picture

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

That PicIp program looks really old skool Sticking out tongue

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

-Greg

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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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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

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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

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I like irfanview and picasso from google.

Megan's picture

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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!

Abhishek Reddy's picture

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

Smiling

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

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