Top 15 Instant ThumbView Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick image viewing

1. CBX Shell

CBX Shell CBX Shell provides Windows Explorer thumbnail and infotip extensions for image archives. It enables thumbnail preview for ZIP, CBZ, CBR and RAR image archives. Windows Explorer will display a thumbnail image of the first photo in the archive instead of the generic archive icon.......

2. FirmTools ShellExtension

FirmTools ShellExtension FirmTools ShellExtension is a real handy freebie for Windows users.Install this tool and it will add three new options to your menu when you right click on a picture file: convert, print, and thumbnail preview. Converting supports most of the formats you will ever need: JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, GIF,......

3. SageThumbs

SageThumbs SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).Features Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu) Extended info tips Support 162 image formats (224 extensions)......

4. FastPreview

FastPreview FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.Features:Fast Viewer - Showing the image incl. different scaling types......

5. Wincmder Shellex

Wincmder Shellex Wincmder Shellex is a Windows shell extension, which can display your desktop icons in right click context menu once they are organized into folders.......

6. StExBar

StExBar The StExBar provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like.. The commands are not just available from the toolbar, but also via hotkeys and via a context menu!Have you ever needed to open......

7. Link Shell Extension

Link Shell Extension Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links. LSE, as its name implies is implemented as a Shell extension and is......

8. MysticThumbs

MysticThumbs MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images. It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything......

9. ThumbView

ThumbView ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any Explorer window: Image types......

10. Pictus

Pictus Pictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!Pictus is a fast, free image viewer. It is designed to be small, fast and just totally sweet. If you are content with your current photo viewer......

11. FSL Launcher

FSL Launcher Tired of dozens of icons on your desktop?Try this simple, yet powerful & intuitive launcher to organize your shortcuts.Some features:Shortcuts management for applications, documents, url links, folder paths and more...Categorical organization (multi-tab launcher) with fast selection menu:......

12. Context Viewer

Context Viewer Context Viewer is an explorer extension in the form of a Control Panel applet that lets you preview image files and text in the right click menu. It can also display customized information about images and set hotkeys to enable or disable the preview along with a few more options.......

13. photo+

photo+ ArcSoft Photo+ is a reliable photo viewer that allows you to share your pictures with friends on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. The application supports more than 50 file formats and is very easy to use. It features slideshow functionality and includes basic edit tools to crop, zoom and rotate your......

14. eXtra Buttons

eXtra Buttons eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more. There are three options for minimizing windows, you can......

15. PicaView

PicaView PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.It also offers full-screen viewing, image printing and converting. It supports 17 popular......