(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: IrfanView and irfanviewplugins
https://www.irfanview.com/

A venerable picture viewing tool. Can also view other media with plugins.

• 2022-11-16 - Semi-replaced by Oculante since that is cross-platform.
• 2021-06-05 - 4.58 64bit (and plugins) on Windows 10
• 2019-09-15 - 4.53 64bit (and plugins) on Windows 10
• 2018-03-24 - 4.51 64bit (and plugins) on Windows 10
• 2017-11-22 - 4.50 64bit (and plugins) on Windows 10
• 2016-11-18 - 4.42.0.20161101 on Windows 10

• 2016-02-15 - 4.41 on Windows 10

2016-11-18 - 4.42.0.20161101 ∞

Installed with Chocolatey:

• IrfanView (Install) 4.42.0.20161101

• IrfanView All Plugins (Install) 4.42.0.20161107

choco install irfanview
choco install irfanviewplugins

2016-02-15 - 4.41 ∞

• Can't rotate images without exiting fullscreen.

• Uses Ghostscript for PDF viewing, which didn't work for me.

  • I tested this a fair time earlier than this though, so maybe it was fixed before now.
• As of 2016-02-10 or a little earlier, file associations on Windows 10 is broken. See this thread (in German).

• It appears there is no way to entirely disable the video playing functionality. It has to be set up to either play it internally or externally with a plugin. I want to have a directory of mixed files and be able to pagedown through them and not have a video trying to fucking play.

Usage and troubleshooting ∞

Change gif playback speed ∞

control shift + / control shift -

[WONTFIX, WORKAROUND] - Changing hotkeys ∞

The developer has not budged on this feature request since at least 2016.

It should be possible with AutoHotkey. Here's an example with notepad.exe which you could adapt:

Tested 2023-04-09 with AutoHotkey 2.02 on Windows 11

#IfWinActive, ahk_exe notepad.exe  ; Only applies to a Notepad.exe window
^t::                               ; Pressing Control-t
Send, ^n                           ; Sends Control-n
Return
#IfWinActive                       ; End of window-specific hotkeys

Viewing High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) images ∞

(on Wikipedia)

https://github.com/prsyahmi/wic_heic

Before running the .bat (as administrator), move the .dll file to where you want to permanently house it.

Alternatives ∞

• /tag/image-viewers
• Oculante
• FastStone Image Viewer

• Not checked out: https://www.xnview.com/

Last updated 2024-05-23 at 17:27:20