Please recommend a picture viewer

Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application
for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show
thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By
free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be
even better.

pnumminen <> wrote:
>
> Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application
> for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show
> thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By
> free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be
> even better.

I deal with a lot of images in my work, and I love using this as the default
viewer:

http://faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm

It does not have the directory view that you want though. They have another
free program on their website that can do that, but I have not used it (I do
not like the skinned interface in the screenshot), and I use Adobe Bridge or
Adobe Lightroom when I need to look at many pictures at the same time.

ss.

Windows Live Photo Gallery
http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"pnumminen" <> wrote in message
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> Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application
> for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show
> thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By
> free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be
> even better.

connor <> wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:27:38 -0800 (PST), pnumminen <> wrote:
>
>>Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application
>>for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show
>>thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By
>>free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be
>>even better.
>
>I recommend FastStone Image Viewer.
>
>http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Just downloaded and took a quick look at that - VERY NICE!

Richie Hardwick

As Vista does thumbnails, perhaps FastPictureViewer FREE Home Basic Edition
might do some of what you want. It is very fast.
http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/
and doubtless you have considered Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/download/index.html

"pnumminen" <> wrote in message
news:e2d34449-b418-4a38-b784-...
> Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application
> for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show
> thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By
> free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be
> even better.

pnumminen;881385 Wrote:
> Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing applicatio
> for Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should sho
> thumbnails of images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. B
> free I mean free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would b
> even better

Old style Irfanview 4.20 with addons will display just about anythin
:

'IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewer
worldwide' (http://www.irfanview.com/

Vista integrated - Picassa 3 opt for the preview option on and i
replaces vistas own with something bette

'Picasa 3: Free download from Google' (http://picasa.google.com/

Both totally free :

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*Nigel*
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understand.,- frank herbert

On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:27:38 -0800, pnumminen wrote:

> Please recommend a free, easy and _fast_ picture viewing application for
> Windows Vista. It should be small in size. It should show thumbnails of
> images in a directory and allow opening them quickly. By free I mean
> free as in free beer, but free as in free speech would be even better.

I use gwenview.

Thank you for your suggestions.

I tried out FastStone Image Viewer, IrfanView and FastPictureViewer.

Is it possible to configure IrfanView Thumbnails and FastPictureViewer
to automatically show the opened image in full screen?

The X (Close) button in the upper right corner in FastStone Image
Viewer doesn't seem to reach the ultimate corner of the screen where
you can take your mouse pointer, even if you have maximized the
application. Clicking that corner doesn't close FastStone Image Viewer.