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Best Free NFO Viewer
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| Many freeware files are distributed with descriptive NFO and DIZ files as part of the distribution package. These are just plain text files, so you can view them with Notepad or other text editors, but often the formatting is lost. |
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Official description: GetDiz is a fully featured text editor which can replace Notepad while maintaining an incredible speed, ease of use and small size. You can display and edit any text files with GetDiz. Additionally it offers enhanced functionality with DIZ and NFO files, which are often included in ZIP archives. GetDiz is able to display ASCII art correctly and save text, nfo and diz files as GIF images. The user interface is handy, small and specific. An optional USB-Stick installation is also possible. |
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Official description: NFOPad is a small, fast and flexible combined nfo viewer and text editor. It is a clone of Microsoft's Notepad but with extra settings, and support for nfo files. The file extension is used to determine whether to use an ANSI or ASCII font. NFOPad also fully supports Unicode. |
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Official description: DIZzy displays DIZ, NFO and other confusing, ASCII-extended text files in a pleasing graphic format. It supports drag-and-drop, file associations and command line. DIZzy is an amazingly small, self-contained, flexible and free program. |
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Official description: DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility designed for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy. So, if you're fed up with starting some DOS-like file manager each time you need to view nfo files, or aren't too happy with the viewer you use, or (worst case) use Notepad - give this little tool a try. |
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One of the best nfo viewers:
http://nfostoners.krakenstein.net/
iNFekt is really the best! :D thank you Mark11 for the tip ;)
DIZzy is portable, there is no installer version. The .exe file is standalone.
Updated and thanks for pointing out, J_L.
We've just released 4.6 with a new installer which works better on 64bit systems. p.s. GetDiz does not contain the Ask Toolbar anymore. Now it's just pure freeware. You can download it at http://www.outertech.com/notepad-replacement/
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i just tried damn nfo viewer and didnt like it so i uninstalled it but for some reason i cant make my nfo's like i usually do.its not the same icon and looks like a notepad or something and i have tried everything.i just make a text and name it"name.nfo and it changes but now it dont,please help.
Hey, I think I could be of help. I've never actually used NFO's before but I know what they are. I think your problem lies. [edit: I read your comment again, and you'll most likely need to download a NFO viewer which I've implemented in step 2]
1.OK open My Documents or My Computer.
goto Tools > folder options (if you're not using XP, look for something similar)
select tab "File Types"
scroll down to find extension NFO, select it
try to figure it out from there because I don't know exactly what you're looking for
here's what I would do; - >Advanced >Change Icon
OR look for a "restore" button
OR >Change (choose your preferred NFO viewer)
if that doesn't work: 2
There's also iNFekt - http://code.google.com/p/infekt/ - it has some nice colors and comes in a native 64 bit version. My favorite.
Really cool. Thank you for the tip. I really liked the rendered mode.
Sounds cool. Thanks for the tip.
jane (just another nasty editor) has been good to me.
http://www.kifoth.de/jane/html/about.html
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.
I agree NFOpad is the best one now.
I've been using GetDiz for years, but with Windows 7 it would work great for few weeks/months then it would just hang there in the taskbar. On multiple computers too. I contacted GetDiz and they told me to just reinstall it. I did so and it fixed it but then same problem occurred again after just a few days.
Went over to NFOpad and never went back. It even opens nfo's a bit faster then GetDiz.
I've had the same problem with GetDiz on Windows 7 where the program would just hang. So I made the switch to NFOpad and it works great.
NFOPad is nice. I'll be adding a short review of it to this page soon.
I'm glad the google search turned this article up for me. I like getting opinion's from a wide range of people. I just decided to give NFOPad a whirl. I love it. Simple, yet stylish. I've been using DAMN Nfo Viewer for YEARS now...Back when the developer made it shareware, and if you tried to modify code or crack it, it would do something nasty to yer computer! But that was yeaaarrrsss ago. Sad to see it be abandoned. NFOPad ftw! \o/
I HV DWONLOADED NFO VIEWER, FILE IS ALSO WID ME, BT I M NT GETTING, HW TO USE ND GET D INFORMATION FROMJ IT ND HW TO USE NFO VEIWER AFTER RUN.. PLZ TELL ME
NFOPad is just perfect.
DIZzy is not usable at all - you need to drag and drop into it.
Obviously those of us who use .nfo files (nfo files themselves are relics from the old good times) we do not drag-n-drop anything.
We use old-DOS-style proper Norton Commander-like software such as Far and command line whenever possible.
Anyway, the search is over - NFOPad is perfect, it opens from Far instantly, and I mean literally - instantly, and closes just as quickly with simple ESCAPE. And it displays nfo files beautifully. Even the default colors are perfect, nothing to change.
All you GetDiz users, just try it!
kindly reply hw to use it,
You don't have to drag and drop with DIZzy. Put and keep the exe somewhere then right click the file you want to associate DIZzy with and choose "open" or "open with" and "choose default program". Locate and select DIZzy.exe and tick "always use the selected program to open this kind of file.
GetDiz sucks if the language setting for non-Unicode programs is not English.
Thanks for the tip.
Universal viewer works for NFO files and a billion others. Add it to your right click menu and it's ready for any unknown extension.
http://www.uvviewsoft.com/
thanks...i've never heard of NFO files but i would like to have something that works when Notepad or Wordpad doesn't work or shows a lot of strange charachters - i hope that "universal viewer" will work...
How are ACiDView and NFOlux? NFOlux can create NFOs from templates.
Im looking for a NFO-viewer to be able to use a music probram a friend told me about but I can´t find any good ones. Please give me a link or a tip where I can find one.
CJ Eklund
Have you tried any of the ones listed here?
I am using GetDiz under Windows 7. The program worked for a while but now just shows on the task bar. I can not get the window to display. This happened on two systems. I tried reinstalling with no luck.
Same issue here! Worked until reboot, now just appears in the Taskbar.
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