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Download IrfanView – Fast and Free Alternative to Windows Picture Viewer

Do you usually browse for files on your hard drive with lots of images, music or videos and when you open it, it takes longer to load up the program that associated with it? then you’ll need IrfanView.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

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IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole “creativity” is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

IrfanView supports, .mp3, .avi, .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .png, and many other formats, it also supports viewing your PSD files instantly without opening Adobe Photoshop.
Slideshow and Thumbnails viewing comes handy when browsing folders in explorer, it comes also with plugins for other task you want to embed in it.

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5 Replies to “Download IrfanView – Fast and Free Alternative to Windows Picture Viewer”

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  2. yet

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  3. Chankz22

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    I am a fanatic user of FastStone Capture
    wow what a coincidence bro….. me tooo…..and giveaway of  FastStone
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  4. yet

    Yes bro i tried them all long ago… Its also nice but I like IrfanView better 😉
    and about faststone, I am a fanatic user of FastStone Capture… Maybe i’ll do a giveaways for that 😀

  5. Chankz22

    great post bro……. IrfanView is on my favorite photo viewer(sort of editor),used the version 4.29 portable quite a while ago………bro there is also a pretty good  non-commercial FREEWARE software available for basic photo editing/viewing/converting/resizing:-http//www.xnview.com/   as far as photo viewing is concern my fav (graphic viewer) utility is FastStone
    Image Viewer  http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (freeware and works pretty well)ALSO try http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm (small in size/faststone’s  shareware graphic viewer)….. ha ha ha…… there are thousand others available(both as freeware and shareware)can’t name all of them……….LOL

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