Most unobtrusive app for viewing images on a PC screen
Hello,
What is the most unobtrusive app for viewing images on a PC screen?
In other words, is there a way to view an image with nothing (no headings, buttons, text, icons, etc.) except perhaps a thin border around the edge?
Thanks
What is the most unobtrusive app for viewing images on a PC screen?
In other words, is there a way to view an image with nothing (no headings, buttons, text, icons, etc.) except perhaps a thin border around the edge?
Thanks
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Thanks, Joe Winograd.
You're welcome. Btw, I don't mean to disparage IV's slideshow feature. Just the opposite – I like it a lot, including its very nice option that loops on an MP3 file for background music. I use IV's slideshow feature whenever I need a slideshow! Regards, Joe
I know Joe (believe you me, it didn't even enter my mind). Although I am using IrfanView for so may years now, I never ever looked, seriously, at the drop down menu you provided.
I am thrilled to learn new things, hence my post thanking you.
Thanks, Regards, and Love. :-)
I am thrilled to learn new things, hence my post thanking you.
Thanks, Regards, and Love. :-)
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Yup, totally forgot about Acdsee. Used it for a lot of years...
IMO, Acdsee is the perfect example of how to kill a popular application: just add bloatware and ignore your customers. The perfect recipe...
IMO, Acdsee is the perfect example of how to kill a popular application: just add bloatware and ignore your customers. The perfect recipe...
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Seems like a somewhat trivial reason for not using a fantastic piece of (free!) software. ~ Joe Winograd
Like the "traffic cone" of the VLC Media player", eh? ;-)
Like the "traffic cone" of the VLC Media player", eh? ;-)
If you use icon view (small/medium/large/XL - according to eyes and/or age) on a modern system you'll not see neither red splats nor traffic cones :)
Just adding to the noise...
Just adding to the noise...
With a signal somewhere in there. ;-)
> "traffic cone" of the VLC Media player
Yeah, wonder where they came up with that gem.
> If you use icon view
Nothing but Details view here!
Yeah, wonder where they came up with that gem.
> If you use icon view
Nothing but Details view here!
Nothing but Details view here!
Ditto.
Ditto.
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Thanks for all the great comments. I appreciate and enjoy the dialog.
Yep, that was a fun thread...learned a few things along the way! Regards, Joe
Thankyou Steve glad to know we could help,
Thank you Steve. It's been funny watching Joe and Merete getting all heated (well probably more like "warmed up") about the IrfanView associated icon issue. If the truth be told, I don't like the masked red roadkill icon either, but the best alternative of the "boobs" cheapened everything and was sexist ;-)
Mention was made of the VLC Player red traffic cone icon, which is a love or hate thing probably based on peoples' most aggravating commuting experiences. A while back I took the basic icon (inside vlc.exe), created new ones for the most common multimedia file types by overlaying little "MPG", "AVI", etc onto them to differentiate, and saved them as separate *.ico files in a new folder C:\ICONS. I then set the "DefaultIcon" registry values each of these file extensions in the registry to the respective *.ico files. In the end I decided it was more bother than it was worth and just learned to live with it, even though my blood boils every time I see a traffic cone.
For the record, I mentioned earlier that if I could find the old program that opened images in a bare and borderless window I would post the details. This must have been a very old program that I used to use when I migrated from Windows 2000 to XP, because I can't find it amongst my archives. That must have gone during one of my "redundant applications" cleanouts a number of years ago.
Mention was made of the VLC Player red traffic cone icon, which is a love or hate thing probably based on peoples' most aggravating commuting experiences. A while back I took the basic icon (inside vlc.exe), created new ones for the most common multimedia file types by overlaying little "MPG", "AVI", etc onto them to differentiate, and saved them as separate *.ico files in a new folder C:\ICONS. I then set the "DefaultIcon" registry values each of these file extensions in the registry to the respective *.ico files. In the end I decided it was more bother than it was worth and just learned to live with it, even though my blood boils every time I see a traffic cone.
For the record, I mentioned earlier that if I could find the old program that opened images in a bare and borderless window I would post the details. This must have been a very old program that I used to use when I migrated from Windows 2000 to XP, because I can't find it amongst my archives. That must have gone during one of my "redundant applications" cleanouts a number of years ago.