Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:20:19 +0000 From: Rich Ulrich Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't like it because it launches sluggishly... Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 01:20:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2nt5ajdvnhbveu80sc59tu31d0ja622cu9@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 48 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-GIZ2Gshx9KbBzw1MAhUrDJ+BMukSV6hp4kg9nRGd468Rb0fwRG7BBuc9C7EGwd3KtA/NSx2KN++LS0z!QzHRiXelfXI7P054MBlqKhEKQ91y9sIhvoW5V6QjGLNb40NaWAFOu33HHtVg24zGYarxJ8A= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2909 On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:47:38 -0600, Tilde wrote: >Tony Cooper wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:19:17 -0700, HenHanna >>> There is a (Windows) tool called Photos (Jpg, Png-viewer) --- i don't >>> like it >>> because it launches sluggishly.... >>> >>> Esp. in the last 5 days or so, i'm noticing that almost every day >>> i have to go to Properties to change it back to >>> my fav. Jpg, Png-viewer tool >>> >>> because the Windows update (?) is pushing Photos on me. >>> >>> is there a Fix for this??? >> >> I have thousands of images from .jpgs to .pngs on my computer. I use >> the (free) FastStone Photo Viewer. It's not only a great image >> viewer, but offers many other options from selecting by tagged images >> to bulk re-naming. It's set as my default viewer. >> >> https://www.faststone.org/ > >https://www.irfanview.com/ I have both Faststone and Irfanview, and I like Faststone better. What I remember last using Irfanview for was when I wanted to change the default orientation of some pictures that were usually wrong (downloaded from my off-brand phone). IIRC, Faststone would rotate them okay for PC display by Faststone, but they would be wrong when uploaded to Face Book. > >I'm on windows 10, once installed I have to jump >through a couple of hoops to make it the default >but that's a one time thing. My one nit to pick is >that it doesn't have an auto update feature. I remember spending a lot of time before I figured out how to stop Onedrive, their automatic backup to the cloud, from acting and from pestering me. (Run the program and find the turn-off option.) -- Rich Ulrich