Can I Trust Irfanview
I would like to sincerely thank all you faithful IrfanView users who send me messages of good wishes, congratulations and appreciation. Irfan Skiljan. About the Author. Get IrfanView (version 4.53) The program is available in 32 and 64 bit. Which version should I download?
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IrfanViewEARLIER FEATURESFEATURES CONTENTSLATER FEATURES4th March 2003IRFANVIEWBrian GraingerIntroductionThe Daily Telegraph, in their weekly 'Connected' column, have been running a series on digital photography and touched on the subject of PC programs to view the results. They mentioned two, ACDSee and IrfanView. The first I had already heard of, although I had not investigated. It is obviously a good program, but it is shareware. You can use it for free but have to keep accessing the web site to extend it for each 30 day period.I had not heard of IrfanView before so I decided to investigate. Turns out it comes into the category of what I term FAB software - (well my formative years were in the 60s!).FAB stands for Free and Acceptably Behaved. By 'Acceptably Behaved' I mean that it does not go installing or changing stuff in the Windows folders and it does not make changes to the registry without asking.IrfanView is written by Irfan Skiljan, who appears to hail from Austria, and from the change log one can see it has been well maintained - another reason to trust it.
It comes as a self installing package or, if you wish, you can install it yourself. I chose the latter. The basic software is less than 1MB but if you want the full works it comes with a series of plugins, which add another 3.5MB.DownloadsThe contains lots of information about the program and the download pages can be found at:IrfanView Basic:IrfanView Plugins:These pages direct the user to Tucows as the primary download source, although alternative sites are given. I found some links at the Austrian Goodie Domain Service enabled me to get some zip files.IrfanView Basic zip:IrfanView Plugins zip:InstallationInstallation of these zip files is simple.Extract iview380.zip to a directory of choice, e.g. C:Program FilesIrfanView3.8A subdirectory of the directory of choice will be PluginsExtract allplugins.zip to this Plugins directory overwriting any matches it finds already.The BasicsThe basic program comes with a viewer for the more usual picture formats, along with the capability to do some effects editing.
IrfanView should not be regarded as a full blown editor like Paint Shop Pro.
I have read a lot about UAC but I set it to the lowest and it didn't help. So please don't even mention it.When opening almost any program, even ones signed by Microsoft (IE 9, task manager) or by another corporation (Roblox, IrfanView, BOINC), Windows opens a window asking if I want to open the program. This is the layout:Open file - Security Warning-Do you want to open this file?-Name: C:UsersAdministratorDesktopInternet Explorer.Ink-Publisher: Unknown Publisher-Type: Shortcut-From: C:UsersAdministratorDesktopInternet Explorer.Ink-Open-Cancel-While files from the Internet can be useful, this file type can potentiallyharm your computer. If you do not trust the source, do not open thesoftware. What's the risk?-This has only happened recently and I have had the problem before and it has sort of worn off after a few weeks (a few weeks of praying that I could open programs without hassel). My mum also got it when she had Vista, then the computer got a virus thatcorrupted dll32.exe so lots of things stopped working. I suggest you check the DEP setting.
It should normally be set to on for essential windows programs and services only. I wonder if yours might some how been set to the other option.Change Data Execution Prevention settingsthat doesn't help, if you right click on a file that giving you this message, does it show Blocked(as in the image here so can you unblock it?-If this is happening only to shortcuts on the desktop and all else fails see if it occurs in another user profile (create one if necessary to test). If it works in other profiles, I would treat is as a corrupted user profile issue./ Consultant. Yes - there is some kind of corruption in the profile.FWIW - he message your seeing is one that is most often applied to a single executable file downloaded through Internet Explorer which has been blocked as potentially unsafe. It seems that this is being applied globally to your desktop folder.
You might tryrunning chkdsk /f on the chance that it may fix the problem. If that doesn't help -There may be a way to fix this but it it's rather complicated and requires a 3rd party utility.It would be simpler, and probably safer, to create a new profile.For more information and the possible process to fix it see/ Consultant.