XnView Software

The only item activated is EXIF. Everything else is unselected.

Using Clean Metadata from the browser doesn't recompress the image? In a hex editor the cleaned file looks different from the original. I was expecting only the beginning of the file where the metadata is to be different.

I clicked Remove All Metadata, but when I Save the file, it is much larger in size so XnView must be reproccessing the image. How can I strip the metadata without altering the image?