trouble closing IrfanView

[Iceman]

Been using IrfanView on both Win XP and Win 7 machines for some time now
and have had no problems with it whatsoever. Does what it is supposed to
do in a jiffy. I use it most of the time as my default photographic
software and rarely have recourse to other photographic software such as
Photoshop Elements, its Corell equivalent or the full Photoshop rival GIMP.

One thing though, is the opening page in IrfanView so dim and dark on
other people's monitors too? It certainly is on mine but thereafter the
screen appears quite normal once you start working with IrfanView.
-- choro

I haven't had this experience with IrfanView, although I find it rather
slow to open on my not-so-new PC. Are you using the latest version of IV
(v. 4.32)?

 

[choro]

I haven't had this experience with IrfanView, although I find it rather
slow to open on my not-so-new PC. Are you using the latest version of IV
(v. 4.32)?

I'm using v.4.30. But mine is certainly not slow to open. Other photo
software I have used such as Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro
Photo XI etc and GIMP *are* very slow to open, but not IrfanView. Slow
to open it certainly ain't. Hence it is my default program to open photo
images as it opens very pronto indeed.
-- choro

 

[agnar.renolen]

Irfan view builds an index of all the files in the directory of the file itis opening. It does this in the backgound, while you are viewing the file..

If your temp directory is full of files, it will spend a long time buildingthe index, and will not exit until it is finished.

Check your temp directory C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp
If it is full of files, yuo have the reason. This is a repository for temporary files, and can be safely emptied.

Do not delete by selecting all files in the folder window and press delete,as windows will spend a lot of time counting the files and sum up the total number of bytes to delete before it actually starts to delete anything. In stead open the command prompt (cmd.exe)

And type:

cd \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp
del /F /Q /S *.*

Agnar

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Irfan view builds an index of all the files in the directory of the file it is opening. It does this in the backgound, while you are viewing the file.

If your temp directory is full of files, it will spend a long time building the index, and will not exit until it is finished.

Check your temp directory C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp
If it is full of files, yuo have the reason. This is a repository for temporary files, and can be safely emptied.

Do not delete by selecting all files in the folder window and press delete, as windows will spend a lot of time counting the files and sum up the total number of bytes to delete before it actually starts to delete anything. In stead open the command prompt (cmd.exe)

And type:

cd \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp
del /F /Q /S *.*

Agnar

My Irfan(s) on at least 8 machines and 8 years has never done that.

 

[Nil]

My Irfan(s) on at least 8 machines and 8 years has never done
that.

Nor has mine. As far as I can tell there is no such feature. The OP has
invented this story - it doesn't exist.

 

[Daave]

Nor has mine. As far as I can tell there is no such feature. The OP
has invented this story - it doesn't exist.

Apparently the OP (Jo-Anned) started this thread over three years ago
(Agnar needs to pay better attention when he replies to posts...)! See:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/fQmZhkpUaAw

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Using WinXP and OE6 on a Dell laptop. IrfanView is my default image
viewer,
and over all I like it. One problem, though. When I open an image file
that
is attached to an email, I then can't close IrfanView. I have to involve
Task Manager, and still I keep getting told for a while that the program
can't be ended. (It doesn't matter what format the picture is in; I've
opened JPEGs and PNGs, for example.)

If I open image files that aren't attachments, I have no trouble closing
the
program. If I open attached files in either of the two Microsoft
programs
installed on my computer, I have no problem closing the programs.

I updated IrfanView to the latest release, and there is no change. I
emailed
Irfan Skiljan, and he said no one else has this problem. I'm curious if
anyone here has experienced this issue with either IrfanView or any
other
image viewer.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne

 

[Nil]

Apparently the OP (Jo-Anned) started this thread over three years
ago (Agnar needs to pay better attention when he replies to
posts...)! See:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.
general/fQmZhkpUaAw

Oops! You're right. I was considering the OP to be
"(e-mail address removed)" and I didn't go back any farther than that.