AJ Image Viewer

AJ Image Viewer is a tiny and portable application that puts at your disposal a user-friendly environment for viewing graphic files with the GIF, BMP, JPEG and GIF extension, as well as for converting them to BMP or JPEG format.

Plain and simple interface

It's wrapped in a straightforward interface made from a normal window with an unpolished design and tidy layout, where you can use a built-in folder explorer to navigate disk directories and view all supported image files from a specified folder.
This tree view is a bit rudimentary, though, making it a bit inconvenient to explore the computer. The drive can be changed from a drop-down menu.

View and convert images

In the following step, all you have to do is select a file from the list after viewing the names and extensions of all items, in order to view the photo in the main window. The status bar reveals the full path and size of the currently selected item.
When it comes to the viewing mode, you can stretch the image or place it in the center of the screen. In order to save files with the JPG or BMP format, it's only necessary to point out to the destination folder and enter a preferred name.

Portability advantages

The entire program's packed in a single .exe file that you can drop in a custom location on the disk or keep it stored on a USB flash drive to directly run AJ Image Viewer on any machine without installers. It doesn't modify Windows registry settings, need DLLs or other components to work properly, nor does it create files on the disk without asking for permission.

Evaluation and conclusion

To sum it up, AJ Image Viewer facilitates a basic workspace for locating and viewing images with the GIF, BMP, JPEG and GIF types, as well as for turning them into JPG or BMP files. CPU and RAM consumption was minimal in our tests.