Can you help me get the name of this program?
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January 21st, 2011
I wiped my hard drive some months back and reinstalled everything, only to learn that I’d forgotten what this program was called. I found it rather useful, and would like it back.
It’s a Microsoft product, used for viewing and editing (rotating, cropping, nothing major) photos. It seems that it ought to come standard. The icon is reddish-colored, and I think that it is meant to depict a landscape.
It is not the Picture And Fax Viewer.
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O.K. We simply start by eliminating things. Did you purchase a hard copy of the program, i.e. buy it in a store on a CD or did you download it? If you downloaded it was it freeware, shareware or a demo version?
Was this the icon?
If so it is Microsoft Office Picture Manager
I’d look into IrfanView if I were you. Find it at irfanview.com. It’s a photo viewer, NOT Microsoft, and does the things you mentioned – better than anything that I’ve used from Microsoft (and I’m not a Microsoft hater, I use Office every day and generally like it).
It’s also free. You have nothing to lose by trying it.
picasa 3 from google is nice too
@Nullo let me know if that was not it. I can search more.
@spidermonkey019 Keep in mind that Picassa is owned by Google- and that the images are stored in a way that could potentially orphan them leaving them open to free use for profit if Orphan Works passes. Just sayin.
@Dog got it.
@WasCy I’ll look into it. Mostly what I liked about the Picture Manager was its general lack of other functions, and the way that it would auto-fit everything without having to bother with the scrollbars, and that it would stop at the end of the directory.
@spidermonkey019 It is very snazzy, certainly, but I’ve grown wary of Google products.
@Dog yeah good point!
@Nullo yeah other than picasa google products ain’t so much nice anyway
@Dog Yes it is Microsoft Picture Manager. Good point. :)
I was thinking IrfanView as well. Its my favorite photo program because its so simple.
I understand about the simplicity aspect. IrfanView does have a lot of options that ‘can’ be set (including the ones to resize to full-screen, screen width, height, or ‘original size’ by default, for example. One of the features that I love most about it is its ability to ‘scroll’ through all of the files in a directory by simply hitting PgDn, instead of manually exiting to the directory and ‘selecting’ the next file to view.
There’s also a great thumbnail viewer and organizer bundled (also for free) that you’re free to use or not, as you wish. Also very simple and straightforward.
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