XnView Software

I downloaded the zip package for 1 91 1.

I have never felt I understood the difference between the zip and exe package but decided to use the zip package this time.

I looked in control panel add/remove programs and saw that I had 1 91 installed.

I uninstalled it. The uninstall appeared to work without difficulty. I noticed it left behind my ini files.

I unzipped the zip file in my existing xnview directory and discovered it created an xnview directory in my xnview directory. I deleted it. I saved my xnview.ini file and then unzipped the zip package in my program directory. Everything looked OK.

I discovered that installing the zip package did not install an entry in the windows start directory for xnview. However I had my own enteries for XnView there, so this made no difference.

I copied my xnview.ini back in the directory.

I started xnview and discovered that it loaded much faster. Before, it was taking around 35 seconds to start up. Now it was starting up in maybe 2 seconds. I would call this a big improvement.

What made this happen? The posting described 1 91 1 as a few bugs. Is there actually some performance fix in 1 91 1? Or, is there nothing known in 1 91 1 that would explain such a change?

Did I change something without realizing it? I sure could have. But I don't know what.

I have a 42 MB cache file.

I have noticed that when I look at options, thumbnail, cache, I see all zeros. But it certainly looks like my cache is operating as before. It doesn't look like the system is recreating thumbnails in the cache file.

Could this have something to do with the faster start up? Does computing those numbers take start up time? Why would it not being do that now?

Do you "Use all formats available" checked in Options -> General Settings?
If it is checked try unchecking it and see if that helps.

J Smith wrote: What made this happen? The posting described 1 91 1 as a few bugs. Is there actually some performance fix in 1 91 1? Or, is there nothing known in 1 91 1 that would explain such a change?

Did I change something without realizing it? I sure could have. But I don't know what.

Strange, i have not changed something in 1.91.1 startup...

Most likely there was some bug in your former installation, and uninstalling it cleared it up. 1.7x and earlier versions (possibly 1.8x versions as well, I don't recall exactly when the change occurred) took a long time to load because they scanned all the plugins each & every time you fired up the prog, but since you say you had 1.91 already, that shouldn't have anything to do with it. All the 1.9x versions load very quickly. If your old one was taking that long to load, it's because there was some problem somewhere.

As far as the difference between exe and zip versions: The exe allows for more mindless installation, you don't need to know the first thing about how windows works in order to use the installer. People call the installer "easier", but unzipping a file is so easy anyway.... The only thing with the zip file is that you need to have basic knowledge of how to use windows, in order o navigate to where you want the prog installed & unzip the file & make shortcuts wherever you want them. The big advantage to the zip file over the installer is that you have more control.