"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE" By SoftCns Editor: IrfanView is a very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converter for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
IrfanView is fast and small, with extremely low system resources requirements. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
Some features of IrfanView: Multi language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, email, print, Paint plugin - to paint lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc., support for color profiles, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, Unicode support, many hotkeys, many command line options, 50+ plugins ...
Microsoft Media Player PlugIn: allows IrfanView to read following formats: ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, MID/RMI, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, WAV, WMA, WMV. Support for Apple QuickTime (PlugIn): allows IrfanView to read following formats: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC.
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer (worldwide) with Animated-GIF support !