Irfanview has been around a long time and has turned into the most popular free media utitlies around. What started out as a basic graphic viewer/conversion tool has evolved into a sophisticated multimedia application.

Today Irfanview is more.

# Many supported file formats
# Multi language support
# Thumbnail/preview option
# Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
# Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
# Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
# Drag & drop support
# Fast directory view (moving through directory)
# Batch conversion (with image processing)
# Email option
# Multimedia player including Mp3, Wav, WMA, WMV, Mov, Midi
# Print option
# Change color depth
# Scan (batch scan) support
# Cut/crop
# IPTC editing
# Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
# Capturing
# Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
# Lossless JPG rotation
# Many hotkeys
# Many command line options
# Many PlugIns

With plug ins you can expand the capablities to the point that you may find yourself using it more than any other piece of software.
Download the progam and plug ins from www.irfanview.com

IrfanView is free for private, non-commercial use (that means at home), educational use (schools and universities) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.

It contains NO spyware, NO adware, NO nag screens and NO registration requirements and it's totally free.

I wouldn't have a system without it.