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Old April 14th 15, 08:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Default View DICOM images? MicroDicom DICOM viewer!

Ant wrote:

It's personal home usage so I can view my own images. Ah, I missed that
part. So I tried it, but it failed to open the images.


For the Minimal version, there are *two* downloads to install:
#1 - Program (Irfanview).
#2 - Plug-ins (including Dicom DLL).

You probably forgot the 2nd download and install. Not all users want
the plug-ins so they have a Minimal version that omits the plug-ins. If
you want the Minimal version with plug-ins, you have to do 2 downloads.
The Standard version only includes some plug-ins, so you'll still need
the plug-ins download to get all plug-ins. I suspect the Dicom decoder
is consider esoteric and probably not included in a partial plug-ins
bundle. The Extended version includes all the plug-ins.

For the install of XnView, I don't included everything they bundle in
their installer. I don't convert batches of images mostly because any
conversion results in loss of quality, so I don't need their Nconvert.
I didn't bother to install their XnShell (Windows Explorer integration).
I directly use the XnView program, not by right-clicking on image files
to use XnView from a context menu. Too many programs want to add
context menu entries in Windows Explorer making it busy and messy. To
me, their Media Detector seems superfluous and wastes memory. It reads
image files on digital memory cards inserted into a card reader. I
don't need a resident program for that.

http://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert/
http://www.xnview.com/en/xnshell/

As I recall, I installed the Minimal edition and the plug-ins package.
That eliminates their bundleware for Nconverter, XnShell, and Media
Detector.

XnViewMP is the successor to XnView. I haven't bothered to look at
XnViewMP (http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/).

Since you found a Dicom viewer that meets your needs, don't bother with
XnView unless you want an alternate image viewer to Irfanview that has a
more modern user interface.
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