IrfanView

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520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source

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instagraham ◴[30 Mar 24 17:21 UTC] No.39876705[source]▶

Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least

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allanrbo ◴[30 Mar 24 17:31 UTC] No.39876805[source]▶

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It made more sense to go through the effort to install IrfanView when there was no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Those only had MS Paint, and I think some versions only supported bmp files (no jpeg or gif). Windows XP had an ok image previewer.

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joshuaissac ◴[30 Mar 24 17:39 UTC] No.39876877[source]▶

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> no image previewer built into windows, in the days of Windows 95/98/ME/2000

Windows has shipped with an image previewer since Windows ME. You can see it in this screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/y1lj7x/winme_ima...

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1. lstamour ◴[30 Mar 24 17:46 UTC] No.39876949[source]▶

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That’s the “Preview pane” in explorer. It only supports the file types you could preview in explorer, it only “opens” the file currently selected in Explorer, and didn’t let you zoom in or inspect the image in any way that I recall. It was a plain preview that was supported (in ME) by the integrations Explorer had with Internet Explorer, I believe. Often installing IrfanView let you preview more file types in Explorer, and you could open more than one, display them full screen, edit them, resize them, and more…

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