Battalion Wars

[A Black Falcon]

Okay, here's the deal: with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer you select a picture file and it bring it up in a new window. From there I can Zoom In, Zoom Out, Delete, Print, Start a Slideshow and so on. Also, I have the ability to press the left or right arrow keys on my keyboard to go through the entire folder of picture files. The program automatically resized images to fit in the viewing screen, although with the press of a button they can be put back into their regular size. Your method of bringing up each individual jpeg for the sole purpose of having it appear in its actual size sounds incredibly time consuming, not to mention just a big hassle all the way around.

I was asking whether it's some program built into Windows XP that I have no way of using... doesn't matter though. I looked at the programs I have, and IrfanView has a 'forward/back through image files in the directory' buttons... and it doesn't auto-resize things to fit the screen (at least by default); I know that that means that I often have to scroll images, but I prefer it that way...

I should have thought of IrfanView, I already use it frequently to re-save image files in the hopes that it'll shrink their file sizes... on the whole it does, much more often than it expands them -- for instance re-saving the files in this thing (48MB as downloaded) cut the size by over 8 or 9MB... and with JPEGs there is no change in quality; saving bitmaps as jpegs does hurt the quality, but the space saved is so huge that I usually do it anyway...

Long-term storage. Put stuff in it that you don't use very often or might not ever use again but don't want to out-right delete. It has the added bonus of allowing you to take large files with you.

Yeah, and having a backup of data is a very good idea, while my HDDs haven't gone bad, they always could, and that would be very bad... I don't have much backed up (beyond having two different physical disks so a problem in one wouldn't wipe out EVERYTHING)...