At least I've now got a better PC out of the problem, so that was the good that came out of it. The Bad that came out of it was the fact that I did not BACKUP my files as often as I should have!! That means when my hard drive stopped working I LOST loads of information, stuff that I needed to keep and should have had already backed up on CD or DVD. I want to give www.eBuyer.com a plug because they are the company that had what I needed, when I needed it, at the price I needed, and delivered it before the stated delivery date!!! You can't ask any more than that can you?
So, I've been reinstalling all my software and putting in place new versions of programs that I never got around to doing. One new program I just found and installed is 7-zip and of course it is FREE.
I've also had some good experiences with IrfanView, sounds strange I know, this it what it does... Taken from their "About" page;
What is IrfanView ?
IrfanView is a very fast, compact and innovative FREEWARE image viewer/converterfor Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
IrfanView is fast and small, with extremely low system resources requirements.It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
Supported file formats:AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAD formats, CLP, DDS, Dicom/ACR,DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS/PS/PDF, FITS, FPX (FlashPix), FSH, G3, GIF, HDR,ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPG2000, JPG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MNG/JNG,OV, MP3, MPG, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG, OGG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAS/SUN, RAW, Real Audio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB,SWF (Flash 4), TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, XBM, XPM, CRW/CR2, DNG,NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, X3F, PEF, SRF, EFF, DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG etc. Some features of IrfanView:Multi language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, fast directory browsing,batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, email, print, change color depth,scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations,effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options, many plugins ...
Microsoft Media Player PlugIn: allows IrfanView to read followingformats: ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, MID/RMI, MOV, MP3,MPG/MPEG, WAV, WMA, WMV. Support for Apple QuickTime (PlugIn): allows IrfanView to read followingformats: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC.
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer (worldwide) with Animated-GIF support !
FREEWARE for non commercial use !
Enjoy ! :-)
All I can say is to "Go Get It"
