Windows 7 Software Compatibility Testing - ACDSee

What you are about to read is the result of testing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 under Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. In order to introduce ACDSee, I may tell you that it is a powerful image viewer with a classic appearance, inherited from its illustrious predecessors. ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 is undoubtedly a solid option to view, edit and organize not only photographs but also video and audio files. As a graphics viewer, ACDSee is unsurpassed in its ability to decode and display images as quickly as possible, even several times faster than many other viewers.

ACDSee is compatible with an impressive number of formats and it comes equipped with many useful tools, it also runs surprisingly smooth and quickly in most PCs. Some improvements were applied to this version such as copying or recording original versions on CD / DVD, which, I think, are really interesting developments.

ACDSee's excellent support for metadata joins fairly advanced editing capabilities, with a lot of filters and a series of wizards that create from thumbnails of all photos contained in a folder to Powerpoint presentations. A series of filters can help you to organize your content in different ways: category to which the image belongs, personal value, information stored in metadata (author, camera, date …), size, file format, etc. If you work with compressed files, you will appreciate how easily ACDSee Photo Manager allows you to browse them as folders. So, let’s see how it behaves when installed and run under Windows 7 environment.

Installation & First Run
The setup procedure was not complicated but somewhat long and implied too many decisions to take and some additional options to choose from. Anyway, regarding what we want to test today, which is incompatibilities and hitches, ACDSee installation, presented not a single one.

The whole process was carried out in 8 steps the first four were: the welcome window, License agreement, Personal information entry and Setup type, see them all in the next screenshots.

Next I was prompted to choose which file types I wanted ACDSee to handle, I was also offered to install the Yahoo! Toolbar, and after that ACDSee told me it was ready for installing.

And finally, a few minutes later, ACDSee was completely installed and ready for running for the first time.

When run for the first time, ACDSee shows its Welcome window with tips, tutorials, tours, preference settings and much more. You can browse it if you need further information about this program.

Functionality & Integration
In order to test some of its various functionalities I opened a folder with pictures and performed a batch rotation and it worked perfectly.

Another feature that called my attention was the possibility to upload images to Flickr, so I created an account there, selected and uploaded a folder with photos. See the whole process in the next screenshots.

And after having authorized the action, the upload process itself started. It took no longer than five minutes to upload approximately 30 medium sized photos. Nice and easy!

As you can see there were no hitches malfunctions or delays. You can freely see the uploaded pictures here. Couldn't ask for more!

Regarding integration, it worked perfectly as you can see in the next screenshot ACDSee integrates perfectly with the Aero features.

Bugs Report
No bugs, no hitches delays or incompatibilities of any kind, not only in my personal testing but also couldn't find negative comments or complaints in the web or in specialized forums. Moreover, many users are recommending it as one of the best photo managers for Windows 7 along with its beta versions.

Final Words
Speed and wealth of options are ACDSee strength and power and they make it to still deserve a prominent place among imager managers. And as we could see, its full integration with this operating system makes it available for those fans who decided to turn to Seven.

Have you tried ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 under Windows 7? Please, tell us what your experience was like in the comments section below. Thanks a lot!