IrfanView 4.2

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IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

Version 4.2 adds Basic Unicode support and new options.

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Editor's review of IrfanView

This image viewer and editor is a longtime favorite among our staff, and with good reason. IrfanView is simple, fast, and free for individual use. Upon installation, the app attempts to install two Google programs, but you can opt out.

The program lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can cut and crop images, apply batch conversions, add, sharpen, or blur effects, create panoramas, and change color modes easily. The program continues to add support for an array of file formats and has plug-in support for most image, video, and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, audio CD, and WMA. The interface is far from fancy but should be easy enough for most users to figure out. An IrfanView Thumbnails shortcut on the desktop offers an Explorer-like file tree that quickly displays all images in a particular folder. The latest version includes a basic drawing palette made accessible by hitting F12. It contains simple Erase, Draw, Fill, Rotate, Draw an Arrow, and Color Picker commands, perfect for grabbing screenshots and highlighting image specifics.

IrfanView does what it does well. It's not going to replace a major paint program, but why use a meat cleaver to cut a stick of butter?

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  I Was Using But Have Uninstalled After Scan Found Generic.

  by: Copman on 23-Jul-2008 03:33:27 AM

  Pros: I was using this software for quite a while and found it brilliant for editing etc, but when I downloaded latest update decided not to re -install (See Below).

  Cons: When I checked the downloaded file on the online scanning anti virus sites, they showed that it was packed with Win32.NSAnti.e and Pack_Generic.001. Upon checking these items with sites - Google, I decided these should not be on my P.C.

  I would suggest that before you install, you also might like to check out the file at Virus Total or Jotti online scan sites.

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  ACDWhat? User IrfanView

  by: megadupek on 07-Aug-2008 02:01:09 AM

  Pros: ACDSee? Money? Why? IrfanView is for free. Supports like every image format on this planet. It's fast. User-friendly. Simply a good piece of software. Did I mention it's free? :D

  Cons: Could get nicer icons for images. The red cat (or whatever that is) looks weird.

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  I like this program BUT it has a keylogger!

  by: blackurbanite on 05-Aug-2008 11:24:09 PM

  Pros: Good for what it does...

  Cons: ...but its just not worth the keylogger thats embedded in it. I disabled the keylogger with Agnitum and the program ran fine but its just not worth it to me

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  It is excellent It is excellent

  by: briceone on 17-Jul-2008 11:29:52 AM

  Pros: IT is so cheap.

  It meets all my likes.

  It is continually improving.

  It is very versatile.

  What else can one say!!!

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  Good but not Great

  by: douglas247 on 12-Aug-2008 09:23:17 PM

  Cons: too cluttered and many other downloads with more features and more.

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