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Free Image Viewers and Browsers for Windows

Free Windows software for browsing and viewing the images and photos on your computer. These programs do not use a database for your images, but they provide fast viewing and thumbnail browsing of the images on your computer. They also allow you to perform basic file management, and some offer image editing and file format conversion features as well.
FastStone Image Viewer (Win)
"FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more."
XnView (Win/Linux/Mac)
Imports hundreds of graphics formats and exports about 40 different formats. Features for resizing, adjusting, adding effects, slide show display, batch conversion, screen capture, printing, drag & drop, and more. Windows version available in 36 languages. Also English versions for Linux, Solaris, SGI, FreeBSD, Mac, BeOS, OS/2. Free for non-commercial use.
Vallen JPegger (Win)
This free image viewer requires no installation, supports 15 different languages, reads 40 file formats, and supports lossless JPEG rotation.
IrfanView 32 (Win)
IrfanView 32 is a small and speedy free image viewer and thumbnail browser for Windows.
ShellExtension (Win)
"ShellExtension adds an option to context menu that allows you to view a thumbnail of an image, convert it to any of supported formats and print them." Freeware.
imageN (Win)
Featured Download - This advertiser-supported freeware allows you to acquire, view, edit, convert, organize, and publish your digital images.
Abracadabra (Win)
View, edit and save many types of text and graphic files with Abracadabra's unique "hyperimage" way of navigating through files and directories. Freeware.
cam2pc (Win)
Freeware tool to help you download, browse, and manage pictures from your digital camera. Browse thumbnails or detail view, manipulate and backup EXIF data, batch process images, email photos directly from the program, create stand alone slide shows, and more. Dead pixel removal feature requires registration, otherwise it's fully functional donation-ware.
CDview (Win)
CDView provides a front-end to your CD image collection. Allows you to to browse images, view images full screen, save to your hard disk, search for images, and set your Windows wallpaper. Supports up to 5,000 images on one CD.
CoffeeCup Free Viewer Plus (Win)
Free image viewer with built in email, FTP, and Zip functions. Other features include a thumbnail wizard for making Web pages of images, image slicing, format conversion, more.
Ekspos Image Viewer (Java)
"Ekspos is platform independent Java image viewer program. It support most popular image format: JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Additional image format can be added through Java ImageIO plugin."
FastStone MaxView (Win)
"FastStone MaxView is a tiny, very fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout and commands allow everyone, from beginners to professionals, to view and manipulate images quickly and efficiently."
Fresh View (Win)
"Fresh View gives you the ability to organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video)... watch movies, listen to music, view graphics in a slide show, convert graphics from one type to another, print, and create HTML albums." Freeware, but requires free registration after 20 days.
iBrowser (Win)
Free (ad-supported) image viewer with customizable interface, slide show, shell integration, advanced memory management, support for the most popular image formats and more.
Image Browser Arctic (Win)
Image Browser Arctic is a free, easy-to-use image viewing program designed for Windows. Different viewing modes are available, such as: full screen, stretch window, slide show, thumbnails, and more. All major file types are supported by this program.
Image Guider (Win)
Free utility for browsing and organizing images on your computer. Thumbnail previews, drag & drop, view images linked from HTML files, rename, rotate, and more.
ImgViewer/32 (Win)
Simple viewer with slide show controls, text tool, undo/redo, brightness/contrast/gamma, adjustment, batch convert and resize, set as wallpaper, more. Freeware.
iView (Win)
Free image viewer with open/save support for BMP, JPG and TGA formats, and viewing support for GIF, PIC, TIF, CUT, PCD, PSP, PDD, PSD, RLA, SGI, RLE, PCX and others. Also includes TWAIN support and slide show function. English, Spanish, and Danish language support.
Media Purveyor - Free Media Viewer (Win)
Free image viewer and media player that uses a self-describing technique for storage of metadata regardless of file format (JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, MPG, MP3, etc.) as well as supporting other standards such as IPTC, EXIF and ID3. The metadata also stores lossless image transformations/effects and multiple views of a single picture inside a single file.
One Cat Viewer (Win)
View images, text, and movies or browse them as thumbnails or a slide show.
P3dO Explorer (Win)
This graphics browser supports all popular images files formats, plus Poser and Vue d'Esprit file formats. Features varying thumbnail image sizes, slide show, batch renaming, file management, and zooming.
PhotoMesa Image Browser (Win)
PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser. It allows the user to view multiple directories of images at once, and uses simple navigation commands to smoothly zoom in and out. Freeware.
PickAx (Win)
Freeware image browser with encryption. Load, view, print and save JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PCX, TGA and GIF files. Also convert these file types to the secure Pick Ax file type, PAX. A PAX file is encrypted with a password that you choose and can only be viewed when the proper password is supplied.
PicPerk (Win)
"PicPerk is a nice, easy to use, free image viewer and editor for Windows. View and edit all the images in a folder, 33 image editing effects (including crop, resize, and red eye removal), Desktop wallpaper functions, and more."
Pictoscope (Win)
"Ergonomic image viewer with all you need to enjoy your digital images in various comfortable ways. Includes slide show features such as automatic script creation, automatic resize, session hibernation, photo editing on-the-fly etc."
Picture Slide Show (Win)
Displays all the pictures in a folder as a slide show. Supports ICO, BMP, EMF, GIF, JPG, PNG, and WMF formats.
SlickView (Win)
A quick image browser and HTML thumbnail page creator.
STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser (Win)
STOIK Imagic 4.0 Free Browser helps you "easily import, organize, automatically enhance and share your photos. This is a freeware limited edition of STOIK Imagic 4.0 award-winning integrated photo browser, viewer, image and video editor."
Visere (Win)
"An image viewing program that is free for personal use. Besides basic image editing functionality, such as: cut, copy, paste, crop, and undo, Visere easily renames, converts, and prints multiple files."
Visualizer IB (Win)
"Visualizer IB will let you navigate fast and easy through your photo collection. Once you open an image, Visualizer IB will automatically locate all images in that folder." Features include: file management, Web gallery creation, autorun CD presentations, slide shows with background music, special effects, and more. Requires DirectX 8.0 or later. Freeware

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