Universal Viewer (ATViewer) Free

• Version: 3.6.0.2
• Downloads Count: 57,665
• License Type: Free
• Price: Free
• Date Added: Jul 2, 2008
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
• File Size: 1.661 MB
• Author: Alexey Torgashin

Most recent User Reviews for Universal Viewer (ATViewer) Free

• Reviewed by: BillOfPoway

  12-20-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: Handy way to look into files to see what's there. I have a lot of old Write files, I can right click on a file, select "Universal Viewer" from the menu and walla! there it is. Of course I had to add the plug-in that the other reviewers complain they can't find...

  Weaknesses: The help file doesn't do the work for you. Maybe others, too soon to tell yet.

  Overall Evaluation: Wish I had found this long ago. To add the plug-in for xls, doc and wri files, open the help file, look around, you'll find the instructions. It wasn't really all that hard. Don't make it too complicated!

• Reviewed by: duncanpa

  07-10-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: Can be used to view basic files. Plug-ins can principally extend viewer capabilities.

  Weaknesses: The author lists numerous plug-ins, but fails to provide any information on how to install them, no matter how deeply one digs on his website. The readme files, that I tried, refrained from provide useful info on anything.

  Overall Evaluation: Given that my routines develop around utilities and feeling uneasy about the support that the author provides for his software, I uninstalled the utility.

• Reviewed by: pvgdlife

  06-25-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: reads pdf files ok

  Weaknesses: no access to word or excel documents

  Overall Evaluation: the reference to the word and excle plug in fails to give specific details about what its file name is, where to find it, and how to download it. pcworld should list this information in the online description of the ATViewer!! Please update your description paragraph to include this important information!!!

• Reviewed by: rosyfinch

  02-13-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: Views text, html and JPG files very quickly and effectively.

  Weaknesses: Not sure whether the download includes the Office plugin-- see comments below

  Overall Evaluation: With XLS spreadsheet and Word documents there is an intermediate "File Download" pop-op warning (from Windows?) and some delay, so it opens the files more slowly than simply using the Microsoft file viewer for XLS, but in the case of Word documents it is still faster than waiting for the Word program to load. What is not clear is whether there is a separate downloadable plugin for viewing Office documents that might skip the intermediate step. If there is, PC World does not provide a link to such plugin. Presumably, it is included in the download and is simply not as effective as Microsof's own file viewer. It would help if PC World would clarify whether the plugin requires a separate download, and tell us where to find it.