Is there a good replacement for Microsoft Office Picture manager for XP?

I’d have to play with Picture Manager to know, because until now I had never even heard of it. For over a dozen years now my photo viewer of choice (including minor editing and annotating) has been IrfanView. You can download it – it’s free – at http://irfanview.com. (It also includes the capability to scan and provide thumbnails of every photo on your system, for much quicker retrieval than via folder-by-folder viewing and listing.)

I use Irfanview for cropping, re-sizing, changing file formats, and color depths. It has great batch processing features if you have lots of images to fix.

For more extensive editing I use Photoshop Elements or Paint.NET

Or there is the free open source FASTSTONE viewer, that lets you do all sorts of things with images http://www.faststone.org/

I just downloaded IrFanview and it works great! I will look at the others but so far this one does the trick.

Thanks!

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I always preferred XnView over IrfanView, but that’s really a preference as both are functionally equivalent. I just like the UI better.

I might prefer the XnView interface, too, if I were just coming to both programs today for the first time. However, even with a less-groovy interface, IrfanView’s “thumbnails” add-on is so valuable to me that IrfanView would have to have a very awful interface indeed for me to prefer another viewer.

With “thumbnails” I can easily print contact sheets of every photo in a folder or on the whole drive if I want to. That’s very cool.

@CWOTUS The “Browser” view on XnView is slick enough for me. Don’t think it defaults to that though :/

I have an old HP laptop at home. I was not able to upgrade it to Win7, but was able to upgrade to Win8.1 I installed MS Office on it. When I right click a JPG, I get the option to Open With: MS Office 2010. The icon is the same as Picture Manager, and so are the functions.