12 January 2010

.NFO Viewers



Who haven't got problems trying to open some microsoft windows files called System Information or to see .nfo files corectly? ... Not all of us of course, but there are a lot of people who want to read these files properly.
Here we are with the solution, NFO viewers.
These programs allow us to see and read properly info files, System Information and txt (you can also open other files as well).
NFO files are usually accompany other files, such as softwares, and contain information about that files. They can be viewed with text editors or NFO viewers.



Details: NFO is short for iNFOrmation
All the programs are simplistic and usefull to use.

Here are two NFO viewers and one NFO viewer and editor.

NFO Viewer

Nfo Viewer is a program that you can view the (.nfo) files you download from the internet you can add a file association for (.nfo) files from the menu in this program, and the next time you double click on (.nfo) files will open the nfo in the viewer and you can also modify and save it again or change the background color and text color. View screenshot.

Compatible: Windows XP, Windows 2000, All Windows Server and Media Center 2005, Vista.
Size: 663 KB

DAMN NFO Viewer

The same with this one. If you are tired to use notepad and want to see other files even .nfo, system info or other text file formats use that viewer.
It has posibility to:
- Change colors of font and background
- Change the font
- Underline the links
- Hyperlinks / Email addresses autodetection
- Shell integration
- Smart line breaks handling
- Unicode support
- Copy-on-Select (when this feature is on, text gets copied to clipboard automatically after you have finished selecting it)
- Direct Scroll mode
- Drag&Drop support
and more.

Compatible: Windows All
Size: 263 KB - normal
Size: 126 KB - portable

NFOpad Viewer (and editor)

It looks like windows notepad but with multiple settings.
- Change fonts and colors
- Close program on ESC key
- Copy to clipboard
- Show recent files
- Save settings in Registry or a INI file
- URL and E-MAIL options
- Shell integration with .nfo, .txt, .diz files
- Find and replace, go to
- Insert Time and Date
- Reopen file

Compatible: Windows All
Size: 167 KB

DOWNLOADS:

NFO VIEWER
softpedia download
or go to author's page


DAMN NFO Viewer
softpedia download

DAMN NFO Viewer portable
softpedia download

and

NFOpad
softpedia download
or go to author's page

2 comments:

  1. Or the easy way

    1. Always open with Notepad
    2. Install font linedraw.ttf
    3. Change notepads font to linedraw :D

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  2. huh, nice, but it was better to put a link to it there :), no?

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