If you have a lot of images on your hard drive like I do, get ACDsee. When I first started out with computers, I struggled with MANY different picture viewers... LView, Qpic, Compupic, Internet Explorer (once for a few minutes, by accident- I quickly discovered the error and reset my file association for .jpg's), Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and others. Here are the problems with ALL of them...
1. They take forever to open and sometimes longer just to open a simple jpg image file.
2. They never had a way to browse all the files with thumbnails, except for a few that would create separate thumbnail files. But you still couldn't browse the thumbnails in real time.

Enter ACDSee...
All of a sudden your image viewer is divided into 3 different panels-
a) a directory tree so you know what directory you're in
b) a thumbnail panel that shows smaller images of all files in the current directory
c) a preview panel that shows a larger view of the currently selected thumbnail

Awesome!
Here's some history: about 4 years ago I started using newsgroups to download pictures of... um... cars... without their covers on (wink wink). The problem was the pix started to pile up and it was impossible to sort thru all of them. That's when I started looking for a picture viewer that would work for me, and ACDSee did. It's quick to load pictures, and like I said, allows you to quickly go through all your pix (without waiting more than half a second for each one to load), deleting the ones you don't like.

Seriously, this is an easy, fast, convenient picture viewer. Look for the free demo version at www.acdsystems.com

Thanks for reading my review.



Recommended: Yes