Good Image Viewer for Windows 2000?

fatsheepfatsheep
edited January 2008 in Science & Tech
I've got an older Dell with Windows 2000 on it. Unfortunately, the image viewer on it really stinks. It's from Kodak and it displays a dialog warning you not to open each and every image file (as if I am going to get a virus from a jpeg)...

Anyways, is there a good free image viewer I can download for Windows 2000? I'd like something that doesn't use much memory or hard disk space since this is an older computer.

Help is, as always, greatly appreciated. :)

- sheep

Comments

  • AlphaTrinityAlphaTrinity North Wales, PA
    edited January 2008
    Some people really like Picasa. I've never used it but since it's from Google I assume it's at least decent.

    http://picasa.google.com/
    For Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    Irfanview. Robust, excellent scaling and colors, good editing features, and best of all, free.

    (I have not tried Picasa.)
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I use Irfanview a lot to resize pictures taken with digicam.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I just tried Picasa. It looks interesting and has some features that could be very convenient from time to time. With that said, I think Picasa is unnecessarily complicated for routine picture viewing. I'm really not impressed. I've got several photo editing/viewing software programs on my home computers and use all of them on a routine basis. Irfanview, in my opinion, is the best free viewer/editor available.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I love Picasa.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited January 2008
    Picasa is nice and has some very nice features. But if all you want is a simple viewer it's pretty bloated and can be a pain to find stuff with. So for simplicity irfanview is much better.
  • fatsheepfatsheep
    edited January 2008
    This is for my Mom's computer by the way... I already had Picasa installed on it but she didn't like that nearly as much as Infranview. Infranview is small, it loads the pictures fast, and it displays nice thumbnails for browsing.

    I left Picasa on there in case she wants it later on but Infranview is her main image browser of choice now. Thanks for the recommendation Leonardo.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    I haven't played with Picasa much yet. It appeared to be a decent editor and picture show compiler, but I thought it was a sub-par viewer. You can't just point to a folder and start browsing pictures in full screen. In Irfanview, it's pretty easy to toggle between the multitude functions - full screen viewing; photo editing; batch editing, renaming, converting; and movies.
  • NiGHTSNiGHTS San Diego Icrontian
    edited January 2008
    fatcat wrote:
    I use Irfanview a lot to resize pictures taken with digicam.

    Image Resizer
    http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

    Right click resizing FTW. :)
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