Re: [Update] Imagine 2.6.2

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 08:29:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 03/08/2026 00:09, Shadow wrote:
>>>> 	XnView, Irfanview and Faststone Image Viewer all crash on
>>>> webp(under XP).
>>> Not according to my research.
>>>
>>> There is a webp plugin for Irfanview 32bit I'm told, WEBP 4.73 Weppy
>>> format - WebP
>>>
>>> Irfanview 4.75 says it works on XP. I have 4.75 but x64 and it does have
>>> that plugin, have you enabled it?
>> 	I have it, but it was disabled because versions 4.54 and 4.61
>> crashed Irfanview, so I thought, WTF, not going through that again.
>> 
>> 	4.73 (which comes in the 4.75 plugins pack) does work under
>> XP. Though Irfanview managed to pop up 4 windows telling me it can't
>> load the plugins options(in help). 
>
>Did you read the pop up windows? Like really read them. 

	Of course. They were all complaining about functions that
don't exist in the XP kernel. After I removed the offending plugins no
more messages.
	The "bad"plugins were AltaLux.dll, Avif.dll, Jpeg_XL.dll,
Ocr.dll, PDF.dll, and Wsq.dll

>Most likely and 
>I'm guessing they say cannot load x plugin, most probably because it's 
>unsuitable, yunno, out of date, x64 instead of x32, programmed by Satan.

	"Vista or worse" [Pat Pending]? Obviously programmed by Satan.
LOL.
>
>The simple answer if you find reading pop up boxes challenging or 
>triggering and thunking outside of the box beneath you is to delete 
>everything in the plugins folder, or moving them somewhere for nostalgia 
>purposes and the installing the latest most probably 32 bit plugins 
>package from Irfanview.

	Rather obvious, it's what I do every time I update my 32 bit
plugins....
>
>It's a retro solution for a retro guy.

	I use the H4xx0r solution.
>
>HAND.
>
>> And then it loads them. Most
>> annoying. I'll carry on using Imagine.
>
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