Windows XP image viewer?

[azz0r_wugg]

Good god Windows Photo Gallery takes too long to open just to preview one image. Understandable considering its a fairly rich app, but at the end of the day I prefered Windows XP's image viewer, it opened in a second and was feature-less.

Id like to see Windows Photo Gallery Image previewer, no features - just opens to display images in a folder like the XP version, then WPG the full app.

Anyone know if the XP image previewer was an Exe I can retrieve from my XP machine and make it run on Vista?

[James Rose]

I dont know about the XP viewer, but I've been using Irfan viewer for years and it's QUICK and extensive.

irfanview.com

I understand this was not your questions, but it might be the answer. Best of luck.

[Gabe3]

on my PC, the vista image viewer opens faster then XP's

[azz0r_wugg]

Good for your pc, for me its slow.

Is there away to get XP's image viewer on Vista?

[DomZ]

from http://ask-leo.com/what_if_i_want_windows_...fax_viewer.html

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The command to run Windows Picture and Fax viewer is:

rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen path-to-picture

So it doesn't look like you can just drag accross the exe, vista's picture viewer takes a second with me to load and it is annoying once you've become used to the instant popup of the xp one.

EDIT

There is this program http://www.photo-freeware.net/xpicture.php

Which mimics the style/look and speed of the xp viewer.

Screenshot o it running on vista:

Edited December 7, 2006 by DomZ

[azz0r_wugg]

Is that command for vista?

Is there away to paste into dos?

[DomZ]

That's the command in xp (there is no actual standalone .exe for the image viewer)

[azz0r_wugg]

I want it in Vista.

[franzon]

  azz0r_wugg said:

Good god Windows Photo Gallery takes too long to open just to preview one image

On my 5 years old PC, the Vista's image viewer is very very fast.

[SlasherKG]

well, if that's the command for XP, perhaps you could copy that dll to vista and run it?

[azz0r_wugg]

Xpic posted by Domz is perfect, thanks anyway.

Oh and Franzon, Im glad it runs instantly on your old hardware - it doesnt for mine, so why waste your time +1ing?

[Kreuger]

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I dont know about the XP viewer, but I've been using Irfan viewer for years and it's QUICK and extensive.

irfanview.com

I understand this was not your questions, but it might be the answer. Best of luck.

Agreed.

[P.M.K]

  Gabe3 said:

on my PC, the vista image viewer opens faster then XP's

Yeah me too.

[themaster]

It opens slower for me..

Vista's new photo viewer is crap.. (it should have been improved with EXIF information.. and I think it knocks out Hz settings for monitors) so I guess is the old one.. I wanted to like it but here's the fact.. you shouldn't ever be rotating your personal photos as you'll actually lose quality.. (in the rotation.. vista/xp warns you of this)

So since the program can't rotate based on Header information I highly suggest Infraview.. best long term solution.. also infranview does have a thumbnail command that's somewhat easy and somewhat not.. Easy shortcut to remember is Shift + A

[aydc]

Irfanview doesn't have interpolation. Images with higher size than your screen will look very LQ when you select Fit To Screen. Instead I suggest 11view.

[OhMuffin]

The Vista viewer is amazing... opens really quick for me... and I have a crappy pc: amd 64 3000+, 1gb ram, 6800GT

I suggest getting a new pc or an upgrade. It will solve all you're problems.

[azz0r_wugg]

Absolutely totally incorrect. My computer is more than capable, so please don't give me that bull****.

[OhMuffin]

  azz0r_wugg said:

Absolutely totally incorrect. My computer is more than capable, so please don't give me that bull****.

Well re-install, because it seems you're the only one complaining about it.

[IceDogg]

Comes up faster then the XP one (but only slightly) for me. I'm on C2D 6300 CPU with 2Gig (very fast) RAM and 7200RPM drive.

[qbie]

  aydc said:

Irfanview doesn't have interpolation. Images with higher size than your screen will look very LQ when you select Fit To Screen. Instead I suggest 11view.

Yes it does, theres an option to enable it in the View options. Tick the box which says "Use Resample".

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[aydc]

OK I missed that. IrfanView has resampling too. However, I see a huge difference in quality with enlarged images. I don't know what algorithm 11view uses, but it's much better than IrfanView.

[cbosdell]

slower than the xp one but meh i dont view images much.