IrfanView Icons Plugin

Last updated: Sept. 29th, 2005
Latest version: 1.0

Introduction

I've been using IrfanView for years now, and it's still the best free image viewer available for Windows.
The official icons plugin is pretty useful to identify which file is which, but it's not exactly a beauty. That's why I created my own version of the plugin, making better looking icons for each file format.

This icon package contains the 49 image formats used by IrfanView. Sizes are 48 x 48, 32 x 32, 16 x 16 pixels and each one of them comes in 4 color depths: 24-bit with 8-bit alpha transparency (for Windows XP/Vista/7), 16-bit (True Colors), 8-bit (256 colors) and 4-bit (16 colors).

Screenshots

48x48 32x32 16x16

Download

Get the IrfanView Icons Plugins HERE (~450 KB)

Installing

  1. Extract the included Icons.dll file into the Plugins directory of IrfanView, usually C:\Program files\IrfanView\Plugins.
    Note: You might want to backup the original file included with the program, so just rename it to something else, or you'll overwrite it.
  2. Open up IrfanView, select Options / Set file associations.
    Figure 1
  3. Click the Icons button.
    Figure 2
  4. Choose Use different icons (Icons-Plugin) then press OK.
    Figure 3
    Note: If the option is already checked, uncheck it by clicking one of the default icons above, choose OK to close every window and repeat the whole process.

Feedback

Feel free to comment on this little project by emailing me with suggestions and/or complaints. Any kind of feedback is appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks to Irfan Skiljan for creating such a compact and blazingly fast image viewer.

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