Irfanview is a free,graphics editor much like Photo Shop except it is free. It has a lot of features amd most of user opinions on ZDNet have been good. This is what ZDNet says about this.

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IrfanView is a fast, simple image-viewer and -editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more. In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen

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It does not contain any spyware as far as I can see and is very useful. Here is the link

http://www.irfanview.com

I find this one very good too. It gets me the pictures I thought I had lost, very quickly and easily. Even I can use it , so.....

I think Irfanview is a good program. It's capable of viewing many file types and has some pretty good editing functions. It even has an easy to use 'scan and copy' facility (turns your scanner into a photocopier).

Most reviews you'll read about it are good ones. I only ever came across one that mentioned spyware. I think the reviewer was maybe mistaken. I've never come across any spyware attributable to Irfanview and I've been using the viewer for a number of years now.

My only wish is that it opened .CPT files (Corel Photo-Paint format) because that's what my paint program uses. This wouldn't affect most people though.

A 'thumbs-up' program as far as I'm concerned.